[legalxml-courtfiling] FW: [XMLLEGAL:2GEFS] California Courts 2GEFSLicense and Vendor P articipation

["Aerts, John F." <jfaerts@lasd.org>]

This is what I was discussing on the Conference call.

The W3C "Royalty-Free" patent policy proposal does NOT protect the rights of
the Free Software community to full participation in the implementation and
extension of web standards.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/w3c-patent.html

John

Lieutenant John Aerts
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
Records & Identification Bureau

Information Systems Advisory Body (ISAB)
Los Angeles County 
Consolidated Criminal History Reporting System (CCHRS)
Project Manager

Phone   562 465 7876
Fax       323 415 2666
E-mail   Aerts@lasd.org


-----Original Message-----
From: Aerts, John F. [mailto:jfaerts@LASD.ORG]
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 4:49 PM
To: 2GEFS@XMLLEGAL.ORG
Subject: [XMLLEGAL:2GEFS] California Courts 2GEFS License and Vendor
Participation


Rather then create a new type of license for the Californai Courts (2GEFS)
would it make sense to float the idea (with industry) of using the currently
published licenses at the Free Software Foundation (FSF)? That is
currently the licensing being used by LINUX.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#GPL

The W3C "Royalty-Free" patent policy proposal does NOT protect the rights of
the Free Software community to full participation in the implementation and
extension of web standards.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/w3c-patent.html

Below is the statement by SUN on Intellectual Property Rights for providing
all of their XML work in OpenOffice to the OASIS Open Office XML Format TC
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/office/

Statement regarding IPR, submitted by Sun Microsystems, 11 December 2002
Sun Microsystems, Inc. ("Sun") will offer a Royalty-Free License under its
Essential Claims for the OpenOffice.org XML File Format Specification. One
precondition of any such license granted to a party ("licensee") shall be
the licensee's agreement to grant reciprocal Royalty-Free Licenses under its
Essential Claims to Sun and other implementers of such specification. Sun
expressly reserves all other rights it may have.
The definitions of "Essential Claims" and "Royalty-Free License" in effect
for the foregoing statement are those found in the W3C Patent Policy
Framework dated 16 August 2001, located at
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-patent-policy-20010816/

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