Re: [wsbpel] BPEL licensing - deja vue / resolution

[Danny van der Rijn <dannyv@tibco.com>]

as i see it, this would be a pointless exercise unless the companies that
hold the initial IPR show any willingness to use such a license.

the alternative is to take a straw poll of TC member companies who would
vote against the spec with the IPR as it stands.  if that comes up
unfavorable for the standard, then there's a position from which to
negotiate.

danny

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Ross-Talbot" <steve@enigmatec.net>
To: "David RR Webber" <david@drrw.info>
Cc: "BPEL OASIS" <wsbpel@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 8:16 AM
Subject: Re: [wsbpel] BPEL licensing - deja vue / resolution


> +1
>
> If you do it and succeed I shall be smiling in the UK.
>
> Cheers
>
> Steve T
>
> On 5 Dec 2003, at 15:10, David RR Webber wrote:
>
> > Folks,
> >
> > My thought of the day is that I have been here
> > done all this before. Only last time it was Borland
> > that provided the means to break the impasse.
> >
> > Remember when the legal world was frozen into
> > thinking that software users had to sign-off on a
> > twenty page+ licensing agreement?
> >
> > And then Borland came out with its no nosense
> > approach that printed on to the back of the
> > envelope the disks came in?
> >
> > We've also all seen this from NDA doc's that
> > are impossible to sign - but people have
> > sensible, legible and concise two or three
> > pagers of those now too.
> >
> > My suggestion is that you take matters into
> > your own hands at the F2F.  Sit down around
> > a laptop and edit together a concise licensing
> > agreement that looks good to you - take all five
> > mega-doc's - consolidate, delete, and fixup.
> >
> > Then as a group of contributors to the TC you
> > will have what you think is a fair and reasonable
> > license to use.
> >
> > As I see it the bottom line is that either the
> > original contributors follow through on their
> > intent on bringing BPEL into OASIS, and
> > benefiting from all the hard work the TC is doing
> > on making the specifications workable, or
> > it ends here as a specification only they can use.
> >
> > Hope you have a productive time in Florida.
> >
> > DW
> >
> >
>
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