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Subject: RE: [election-services] NEW IPR POLICY
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Subject: Re: [election-services] NEW IPR POLICY
From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <jhall@SIMS.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Tue, November 22, 2005 11:31 am
To: OASIS EML TC <election-services@lists.oasis-open.org>
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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