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Subject: Donations/contributions across technical committees
I understand there is a proposed donation of output from the OASIS BTP TC into the OASIS WS-CAF TC. It is possible for one TC to use another's work, but not automatically: it requires (a) contribution and (b) analysis. (a) Contribution: Any work that comes into an OASIS TC must be contributed by a member, so that someone is responsible for it. [1] It's up to the contributor to determine that the proposed contribution can be made, consistent with any claimed or known limitations. All OASIS contributions come from a specific member who uploads the material to the TC. (b) Analysis: Under our rules, it's OASIS that owns the output work. All of that work is is subject to OASIS' IPR Policy, which gives the public *some* specific freely-available rights to use it -- which even apply to other OASIS TCs. [2] But any OASIS work can have claims against it, that may limit those uses, now or in the future. The responsibility for disclosing / assuring its IPR availability, in the limited sense our policy requires, rests with the person(s) choosing to make the contribution. Of course, a separate question for any contribution will be whether it fits within the recipient TC's charter. No-one has raised that issue with me in this case. Regards JBC ~ James Bryce Clark ~ Director, Standards Development, OASIS ~ jamie.clark@oasis-open.org [1] http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php#definitions ("contribution") [2] See the minimum copyright terms from contributors to OASIS, at http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php#contributions, and from OASIS, at http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php#general; and the minimum licensing terms from any contributor with a claim, at http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php#licensing_req.
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