Dear all, once again on a
different topic within our current effort in implementing the SPDX standard.
Here it is a licensing
issue.
I am not very comfortable
with the licensing issue for the data when using the standard. See the quick Analysis
of Barry below our Senior attorney on IP issues and I have a quick chat today
with him on that subject.
I am not very happy that data
must be made in public domain. For the following reasons:
- ALU should not be responsible
of the data if we export it. And I understand that ther e is a clause that loow
us to do exception (ALU name not exported with the data, but it should be the
other way around by default any export file should not imply any responsibility
from exporting company).
- if by mischance there
are some comments which we will not want to share with the rest of the world. It
should be protected by the licensing conditions.
Legally speaking
implementing a format that implies some obligation on the data is unclear.
So my question is what is
the rational for these licensing conditions and can we alleviate them a bit?
Michel.Ruffin@..., PhD
Software Coordination Manager, Bell
Labs, Corporate CTO Dpt
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
Tel +33 (0) 6 75 25 21 94
Alcatel-Lucent International, Centre de Villarceaux
Route De Villejust, 91620 Nozay, France
De : Freedman, Barry H (Barry)
Envoyé : mercredi 13 juin
2012 23:12
Objet : RE: SPDX standard:
files are placed in public domain
Michel
and all: I have looked at the Open
Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License 1.0 (“PDDL-1.0”),
which is the license for SPDX 1.0, and also
Creative Commons CC0 1.0
Universal license, which is the license for SPDX1.1. They are both
essentially the same, in that they place the SPDX file itself in the public
domain, meaning that we have no further copyright rights therein. But,
both versions also make it clear that we can temporarily or permanently limit,
by a separate and independent agreement, recipients from (i) distribution of a
specific aggregation (collection) of SPDX files to others or (ii) disclosing
ALU as the source and/or creator of any specific SPDX file(s).
So, we need to be
comfortable that the SPDX file itself (including comments in the file) does not
contain anything that we do not want to dedicate. Perhaps we can discuss
this further at the next FOSS EC meeting.
Let me know if
there are questions. Thx. Barry
Barry H. Freedman
Senior Intellectual Property Attorney
Intellectual Property
and Standards
IP Law Services Group
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