Roy and others at Apache,
There are a few OASIS TCs that meet the requirements of Apache and
other FOSS projects with respect to implementability without fear of
royalty burden or patent reprisal. The ability to do stipulate such
provisions was hard-fought at OASIS (first by Sun and later as a
result of the "Open Letter" sent around a year and a half ago by
Larry Rosen, which many of us signed...including Brian Behlendorf and
myself). Standards put through OASIS are not automatically "safe"
for FOSS implementation. OSI is planning to publish a definition
similar to the OSD to help developers quickly figure out which
standards are FOSS safe and which are not. In the meantime I can
recommend OASIS XRI TC and OASIS ODF TC as two that are running
royalty free and with patent non-assert.
Danese
On Jun 20, 2006, at 5:54 AM, Recordon, David wrote:
This has obviously been something we've been looking at in order to do
our own due diligence on XRI IPR before being willing to contribute
the
Yadis spec to be incorporated into XRI Resolution 2.0. Drummond Reed
sent me the following email further explaining this issue and asked me
to forward it along to the list for him since he had not yet
subscribed.
David,
As we discussed with you in drafting the proposal, all members of the
OASIS XRI TC are fully prepared to sign the CCLA and any necessary
software grants required by the ASF. In fact the OASIS XRI TC is
one of
the few OASIS TCs to have written the requirement into its charter for
its specifications to be 100% open, public, and royalty-free.
Following
is the exact language from the XRI TC charter at
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xri/charter.php.
In no event shall this Technical Committee finalize or approve any
technical
specification if it believes that the use, distribution, or
implementation of
such specification would necessarily require the unauthorized
infringement of
any third party rights known to the Technical Committee, and such
third party
has not agreed to provide necessary license rights on perpetual,
royalty-free,
non-discriminatory terms.
As you know, I was personally involved not just in creating the
patents
involved, but in subsequently seeing that they were contributed to a
non-profit public trust organization, XDI.org, so that they could
become
open, public, royalty-free standards. Complete details of the
contribution from XDI.org to the OASIS XRI TC are on the TC IPR
page at:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xri/ipr.php The TC has already
spawned one open source project (www.openxri.org) that uses the Apache
license (and whose code is already incorporated into other open source
projects).
I am copying my XRI TC co-chair, Gabe Wachob of Visa International,
who
can further attest to the depth of our commitment that the XRI
standards
would be 100% free and open and compatible with all open source
implementations.
Best,
=Drummond
-----Original Message-----
From: Roy T. Fielding [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 5:19 PM
To: general@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Heraldry Identity Project
This space in OASIS is a festering pile of claimed patents.
Are all of the companies involved willing to sign the CCLA and
software
grants necessary to assure distribution under the Apache License?
....Roy
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