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Subject: New release of Akoma Ntoso 3.0 (20 December 2013 - OASIS CSD07)

From: Fabio Vitali <fabio@cs.unibo.it>
To: legaldocml@lists.oasis-open.org
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 13:05:28 +0100

Hello.

Please find attached the new release of Akoma Ntoso, dated 20 December 2013. This is the seventh draft release for what is meant to become version 3.0 of Akoma Ntoso.

Ciao

Fabio

Differences between release 20/12/2013 (CSD07 AN 7.0) and 25/9/2013 (CSD03 AN 6.0)
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This release contains a number of modifications proposed by the Technical Committee of the OASIS working group in December 2013, as well as a new specification for the license that gets rid of the GPL license in favor of a more liberal one. In particular:
· Attachments have been reorganized as to become closer in nature and syntax to components of a composite document. This means that inside the attachments element there is a new repeatable element attachment that contains the document root of the attachment itself. This element has the usual attributes including a required currentId.
· subFlowStructures (such as quotedStructure and extractStructure have changed content model in order to allow a maximum of ONE enclosed document element. In order to include multiple documents one must therefore use multiple extractStructure or quotedStructure elements.
· A new section of the analysis element, restrictions, has been added to contain restriction elements that describe jurisdiction specifications and other types of restrictions of validity. Each restriction element associates a TLCConcept identified by a refersTo attribute to a fragment of the document identified by an href attribute. At the moment only one type of restriction is possible, namely jurisdiction. Other types of restrictions may be specified in future by adding values to the new type restrictionType. This can be used to specify jurisdiction restrictions (frequent, e.g., in UK legislation) to individual fragments of the legislation.
· A new specification of license has been used instead of the old GPL v. 3.0. The full text of the license specification is placed in a new file associated to the release called license.txt, to replace the old gpl-3.0.txt . Its content is as follows:

The System referred to as

Akoma Ntoso
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is provided by the Copyright Holder

OASIS
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under this instantiation of the

Akoma Ntoso SPECIFICATION LICENSE:
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Definition:

In the following, "Specification" refers to all diagrams and texts for defining the System, including models/metamodels, glossaries/taxonomies/ontologies, semantic formalizations, grammars/schemas, sublanguage-naming systematics, transformers (e.g., normalizers and upgraders), as well as examples and test/use cases, along with their natural-language explanation and documentation.

Declaration:

This Specification may be used, reproduced, published, presented, and distributed, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it or assist in its implementation may be prepared, reproduced, published, presented, and distributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any kind, provided that
* an unmodified copy of this document is included with all such copies and derivative works,
* non-authorized derivative works are clearly identified as such, and
* this Specification itself is not modified in any way, except as part of a collaboration with the Copyright Holder or to the extent necessary to translate its natural-language explanation and documentation into other natural languages.

Disclaimer:

THIS SPECIFICATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SPECIFICATION, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

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The template of the Akoma Ntoso SPECIFICATION LICENSE, which may be instantiated for other specifications, can be found at the following URL:xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Fabio Vitali Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly,
Dept. of Computer Science Man got to sit and wonder "Why, why, why?'
Univ. of Bologna ITALY Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land,
phone: +39 051 2094872 Man got to tell himself he understand.
e-mail: fabio@cs.unibo.it Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007), "Cat's cradle"
http://vitali.web.cs.unibo.it/

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