We have been in touch with the OSOA folks and the license restriction referred to below has now been removed.
Janet Campbell Legal Counsel & Manager, Intellectual Property Eclipse Foundation Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Oisin Hurley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 9:09 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org Cc: Legal Discuss Subject: Re: Field of use constraint on OSOA license? > This is the point that concerns me. As I read it, users are only > permitted to "copy, make derivative works of, and distribute" these > items "as part of a compliant implementation." FoU may be the wrong > term, but that clause is imposing restrictions on users that go > beyond the Apache License as they are constrained to a "compliant > implementation". We use these files in the Eclipse SOA Tools Project, and we are certainly not building any type of SCA implementation -- merely a brightly colored editor to visualize SCA Assemblies. So, FWIW, these files have made it through the Eclipse Legal process... best regards Oisin ---------------------------- IONA Technologies PLC (registered in Ireland) Registered Number: 171387 Registered Address: The IONA Building, Shelbourne Road, Dublin 4, Ireland --------------------------------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER: Discussions on this list are informational and educational only. Statements made on this list are not privileged, do not constitute legal advice, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions and policies of the ASF. See <http://www.apache.org/licenses/> for official ASF policies and documents. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
