Hi Krish, Thanks for your interest in Apache ODE. Please see my comments inline.
On 10.02.2012 20:53, krishnan subramanian wrote: > I was going Apache ODE documentation and found that it is currently > licensed under > the Apache License, version 2.0 terms&conditions which is extremely > non-restrictive > ( a BIG thanks to the apache team for this!). ... like all software released by the Apache Software Foundation :) > I was going through the WS-BPEL 2.0 standard ( and the earlier > versions) and find > that the standard itself was produced by 3 or 4 of the majors ( > like SAP,MS, IBM etc) > and that they *might* have IP rights over certain parts of the standards. > > I have gone through the Oasis website in detail and also have > looked through the > Apache ODE mailing list archives and found that that last communication > was the send out by Matthieu Riou titled "BPEL IP rights and > patent" on the December > 7, 2006. This mail seems to suggest that there are no issues on the > IPR front. > > I wanted to check if there was any further news on this front after > 2006 and why the > Apache ODE license does *NOT* mention IPR/license details of any of > the contributors > of the standard itself. To my knowledge, these issues are cleared as per http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/200612.mbox/%[email protected]%3E Also there are other projects and companies that use ODE in their products, be it open source or commercially used. HTH, Tammo -- Tammo van Lessen - http://www.taval.de
