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Subject: Re: [election-services] NEW IPR POLICY
On 11/22/05, Simon Bain <sibain@tendotzero.com> wrote: > David hi. > > OK "which by definition is open" Surely the fact that the EML spec > has been created by a technical committee of an organisation which > promotes e-business standards, and in this particular case by more > than one supplier and individuals would mean that any output from > the committee is open for others to use free of charge. The fact > that we are dealing with an XML syntax means that this code is not > hidden and is open to all to see and download. (And change if they > wish). Unless of course any of the companies and or individuals have > already stated that there input is subject to license restrictions. > (John?). > > Here I am talking specifically about the output thus far, ie the EML > syntax. Which the use of is open and the source code available to be > downloaded and modified without any license restrictions (See > company caviat above). However I am, as allways, open to be > corrected on this. (sorry to be so curt; I'm in a hurry) Someone pointed out off-list that the Sender ID component of the WS-Security standard was rejected by the Apache Foundation due to the inability for users to sublicense rights (specifically, each user/modifier would have to execute a separate license with the original patent licensor, Microsoft): <http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2004-09-03-a.html> As David pointed out, this article does a good job advocating for two additional IPR policy modes in OASIS (one where patent rights contributed are sub-licensable which would allow free and open source implementations and another where the patent holders explicitly agree to protect users with their own patent portfolios): <http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1597> -- Joseph Lorenzo Hall PhD Student UC Berkeley, School of Information (SIMS) <http://josephhall.org/>
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