Hi, On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 11:45 -0700, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > > The license to review is the one in the specification documentation, > > which in essence says nothing other than the fact that you are NOT > > indemnified against IP claims, which is standard CYA by the OSGi > > Alliance. > > It says nothing. It doesn't even provide a license to copy or make > derivative work. There is zero license there, only a disclaimer.
You might want to coordinate on this with Eclipse. They had similar concerns about some OSGi code. See: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=90052 One of the comments in that bugs says: To be specific, OSGi now makes a clear distinction between the specification PDF document ("specification") and the java source files which contain the OSGi API typed in from the specification ("companion code"). OSGi does not consider the companion code to be the specification and thus has agreed to license the companion code under EPL. The specification itself is available under a new specification license which freely allows distribution and implementation of the specification, but all rights to modify the specification are retained by OSGi. This is to prevent forking the specification. Hope that helps. The bug also has email addresses of some contact people if you need them for more clarifications. I am not sure if the current license on the osgi website is already this new license this comment talks about, or if they still have to update the site to clarify this. Cheers, Mark
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