[jira] [Assigned] (TAVERNA-925) Avoid OASIS licensed OpenDocument-v1.2-os-manifest-schema.rng?

["Stian Soiland-Reyes (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TAVERNA-925?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Stian Soiland-Reyes reassigned TAVERNA-925:
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    Assignee: Stian Soiland-Reyes

> Avoid OASIS licensed OpenDocument-v1.2-os-manifest-schema.rng?
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>
>                 Key: TAVERNA-925
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TAVERNA-925
>             Project: Apache Taverna
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Taverna Language
>    Affects Versions: language 0.15.1
>            Reporter: Stian Soiland-Reyes
>            Assignee: Stian Soiland-Reyes
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: licensing, ucf
>
> Taverna Language includes the Open Document manifest schema, which has an OASIS license
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-taverna-language/blob/master/taverna-robundle/src/main/xsd/OpenDocument-v1.2-os-manifest-schema.rng
> (This is then compiled to JAXB Java beans and used to create/parse the UCF META-INF/manifest.xml inside the wfbundle workflow files - see target/generated-sources/xjc/org/apache/taverna/robundle/xml/odf/manifest after building)
> {quote}
> This product contains Open Document Format(ODF) Schema documents.
> Copyright (c) OASIS Open 2002-2011. All Rights Reserved.
> {quote}
> Our file matches 100% with
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/os/OpenDocument-v1.2-os-manifest-schema.rng
> OpenDocument-v1.2-os-manifest-schema.xsd is derived directly with trang
> with the same copyright header added.
> (See commit https://github.com/apache/incubator-taverna-language/commit/b4c49f6e5c28f5113cacb353eb473e3b5f8bff24 )
> And so we also added it to our LICENSE as 
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-taverna-language/blob/master/LICENSE#L327
> We initially looked at Apache ODFDom which includes this similarly in
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/odf/trunk/NOTICE
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/odf/trunk/validator/src/main/resources/schema/odf1.2/OpenDocument-v1.2-os-manifest-schema.rng
> which made it seem like it would be OK for us to distribute.
> but the license includes a trouble-some no-modification clause:
> >   However, this document itself may not be modified in any way, including by
> >  removing the copyright notice or references to OASIS (..)
> Not being able to remove the copyright notice is OK - but this says no modifications to the document AT ALL.  So while we haven't done any such changes, downloaders of ASF software should:
> http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#no-modification
> > Apache projects must not include material under such licenses in version control or in released source packages. It is however acceptable for a build process to automatically download such non-software materials like fonts and standardized data and include them in the resulting binaries. Such use makes it clear that these dependencies are not a part of the open source code of the project.
> OASIS license was discussed in
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-111
> and concluded as:
> > As I understood it, since the standards do not allow modification, we may include them in binary releases, but not source releases.
> So that should mean that we can't (ASF policy wice) distribute OpenDocument-v1.2-os-manifest-schema.rng or OpenDocument-v1.2-os-manifest-schema.xsd **in our source code**.
> However we would be fine to refer to those externally during the build - but of course this would mean that 
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/os/OpenDocument-v1.2-os-manifest-schema.rng
> would have to be online at build time.
> In commit https://github.com/apache/incubator-taverna-language/commit/c27b90e953c01e428ac352649038e17e71d6c705 I tried to compile the rng directly with jaxb-maven-plugin which I think didn't work well.  
> It might still be worth checking if this would be possible to do with the rng directly from docs.oasis-open.org.
> It would even be possible to share the converted .xsd somewhere outside ASF -- a cheaky quick-fix would be https://cdn.rawgit.com/wf4ever/robundle/b4c49f6e5c28f5113cacb353eb473e3b5f8bff24/src/main/xsd/OpenDocument-v1.2-os-manifest-schema.xsd
> Or perhaps the best is to remove the OpenDocument.* schema compilation all-together and create JAXB Java beans by hand with the appropriate annotations? Do not copy from target/generated-sources/xjc/  as  that would count as derived work.



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