Fw: [office] ODF schema within public source repositories

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

Hi Chet,

I think this is probably a better question
for you.

"Maven Central" is a publicly-accessible repository for coding
artefacts, i.e., shared libraries, mainly in Java.  Programmers upload
their libraries and assign them "coordinates" which is a naming
convention that specifies the name of the library, the version, etc.  Having
this central repository facilitates easy dependency management.  The
programmer simply indicates the coordinates of his code's dependencies
and they are automatically downloaded from Maven Central, along with their
dependencies, and so on.  Very cool

It would be very useful for programmers
writing ODF-related tools in Java to download if they could also download
the ODF schemas from Maven Central this way, especially since we have Java
programs, like the ODF Validator, that depend on the schemas.

I believe the copyright licence on OASIS
Standards (and their enclosed schemas) allows us to do this.  But
the question was whether OASIS wanted to take a coordinating role in defining
the coordinates for their schemas.  I know we have OASIS coordinate
other kinds of external registrations, such as MIME content types with
IANA, etc.

For example, the coordinates of the
ODF 1.2 schema  might be:

<groupId>OASIS</groupId>
<artifactId>OpenDocument-v1.2-os-schema.rng</artifactId>
<version>v1.2-os</version>

Let me know if you think OASIS would
want to get involved here.  Might be a good question for the TAB as
well.

Regards,

-Rob

----- Forwarded by Robert
Weir/Cambridge/IBM on 04/01/2012 05:58 PM -----

From:      
 Svante Schubert <svante.schubert@gmail.com>
To:      
 Robin Cover <robin@oasis-open.org>,

Cc:      
 ODF TC List <office@lists.oasis-open.org>
Date:      
 02/22/2012 08:12 AM
Subject:    
   [office] ODF
schema within public source repositories
Sent by:    
   <office@lists.oasis-open.org>

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Hi Robin,

I would like to add the ODF 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 schema to a public Maven repositories
for the build process of the Apache ODF Toolkit (incubating) project [1],
similar as it was done before for OOXML schema [2]
for the Apache POI project [3].
The schema are being used for code generation. The advantage to copy the
schema to the trusted Maven repository is, the schema would be downloaded
only once by the Maven build tool, placed in a trusted local environment
and not downloaded with every build. This would allow to build without
Internet (e.g. in Café, Train, Airport, etc.).

Is there any legal process, I have to conduct with OASIS?

Thanks in advance,
Svante

[1] http://incubator.apache.org/odftoolkit/
[2] https://maven.nuxeo.org/nexus/content/repositories/public/org/apache/poi/ooxml-schemas/
[3] http://poi.apache.org/