Re: copyright question

It is ok to check it into Apache IFF the copyright holder has granted us a 
license to use the copyrighted material, under the Apache license 
(preferred) or a compatible license.

Does the spec grant a license to the XSDs as well? If not we'll have to go 
thru the pain of getting the license properly.

Sanjiva.

Kurt T Stam wrote:
> A lot of specifications defined APIs in the form of WSDLs or XSDs. For 
> example the uddi policy api is defined as:
> 
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/uddi-spec/doc/spec/v3/schema/uddi_v3policy.xsd 
> 
> 
> The header of this particular file says:
> 
> <!--
>    Copyright (c) 2000-2002 by Accenture, Ariba, Inc., Commerce One, Inc.
>    Fujitsu Limited, Hewlett-Packard Company, i2 Technologies, Inc.,
>    Intel Corporation, International Business Machines Corporation,    
> Microsoft Corporation, Oracle Corporation, SAP AG, Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
>    and VeriSign, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
>      Copyright (c) OASIS Open 2002-2004. All Rights Reserved.
>    -->
> 
> 1. Is it ok to check these files in on an Apache project?
> 
> 2. Is is ok to redistribute them?
> 
> This issue must have come up before, but I could not find anything on 
> our site. However if you know where I can read up more about this I'd 
> love to hear from you.
> 
> Thx,
> 
> --Kurt
> 
> Kurt T Stam
> [email protected]


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