What license are you referring to in
ODF 1.0? I've just double-checked on the web site, and I see no license
on the specification. So far as I can see, it has a copyright, owned
by OASIS, but anyone can freely download and read. Further, I see
nothing that says OASIS (or anyone else for that matter) requires a license
from you to implement it. So, where is this license on the spec?
Where do you see anything otherwise? Of course, if you want
to acquire rights to create a derivative work based on OASIS (a country-western
CD? a one-act radio play?) then that is something else entirely.
But other than that, where is the restriction?
-Rob
Adam Moore <>
11/16/2005 01:53 PM
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Re: [opendocument-users] Sub Committee's
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Thank you,
So when a proposal is made to the TC and let's say they adopt it does it
have the same license as the original OD spec? Since the change of
licenses that OASIS has done will any new changes to the spec have to be
under one of those licenses? (Legacy probably in this case)
On 11/16/05,
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I think of it this way. A subcommittee is not the full TC.
So a subcommittee cannot promulgate specifications, public drafts,
etc. or otherwise act on behalf of the entire TC or OASIS. They can
discuss, weigh alternatives, refine, etc., and at the end of their work
they vote to dissolve and bring something before the full TC. So,
I'm not sure there is really anything there to attach a licence to until
it is submitted to the full TC, at which point it would be treated like
any other submission to the TC.
For example, how is this different than something done entirely in the
TC, in the case where a single member writes a draft of a document which
is then given to the entire TC for inclusion into the spec? Does
the draft have a different licence during the period it is being drafted?
I don't think so. I think the point of the subcommittee is
to allow parallel and more specialized discussions of topics than possible
within the constraints of our weekly TC meeting. But I don't think
a subcommittee is delegated any authority to adopt their own licence.
-Rob
Adam Moore <>
11/16/2005 01:12 PM
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[opendocument-users] Sub Committee's
and licensing
Thanks for setting up this list.
I have wanted to ask this, but haven't found the right channels to
ask. If a subcommittee is created in OASIS and their work is
incorporated into OpenDocument will it be under the same license as
the original OpenDocument v1.0?
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