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Posted to dev@felix.apache.org by "BJ Hargrave (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org> on 2005/11/30 05:10:30 UTC
[jira] Commented: (FELIX-1) Resolve OSGi licensing concerns prior to Incubator graduation
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-1?page=comments#action_12358871 ]
BJ Hargrave commented on FELIX-1:
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I think both of the listed concerns should be resolved.
1. The OSGi R4 companion code has been released under EPL 1.0.
2. The OSGi Specification License 1.0 for the R4 specification states: "The OSGi Alliance ("OSGi Alliance") hereby grants you a fully-paid, non-exclusive, non-transferable, worldwide, limited license (without the right to sublicense), under the OSGi Alliance's applicable intellectual property rights to view, download, and reproduce the OSGi Specification ("Specification") which follows this License Agreement ("Agreement")." The full license text in in the front matter of the OSGi R4 specification docyuments.
The referenced Eclipse bug has been marked RESOLVED/FIXED.
> Resolve OSGi licensing concerns prior to Incubator graduation
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: FELIX-1
> URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-1
> Project: Felix
> Type: Task
> Reporter: Enrique Rodriguez
> Assignee: Enrique Rodriguez
> Priority: Blocker
>
> We must resolve OSGi licensing issues prior to Incubator graduation. The two main items are:
> 1. OSGi Service Platform R4 specification sources ("companion code") must be released under a license that clearly allows free distribution and implementation.
> 2. OSGi Service Platform R4 specification document ("specification") must have a license that clearly allows free distribution and implementation.
> Both items will be resolved in the R4 release. In particular, the companion code will be released under the EPL.
> The Eclipse Foundation has been through this issue:
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=90052
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Re: [jira] Commented: (FELIX-1) Resolve OSGi licensing concerns prior to
Incubator graduation
Posted by BJ Hargrave <ha...@us.ibm.com>.
This just means that only OSGi has the rights to license its
specification. The terms only apply to the specification (PDF files) and
do not apply to the interfaces (e.g. Bundle.java) which are under EPL 1.0
and they do not apply to implementations of the specification (e.g.
Felix).
It does give Apache the rights to redistribute the specification (PDFs)
but not the rights to alter the license of the specification. This should
be highly consistent with licenses on other specification documents like a
JSR specification and are probably more generous since you get
redistribution rights.
But please do consult with Apache legal advisors to see if there are any
problems with this license for Apache. If Apache does have any issues or
concerns, please bring them to me so that I can take them to OSGi for
possible resolution.
BJ Hargrave
Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM
OSGi Fellow and CTO of the OSGi Alliance
hargrave@us.ibm.com
Office: +1 407 849 9117 Mobile: +1 386 848 3788
Niclas Hedhman <ni...@hedhman.org>
Sent by: Niclas Hedhman <he...@gmail.com>
2005-12-03 02:27 AM
Please respond to
felix-dev
To
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Subject
Re: [jira] Commented: (FELIX-1) Resolve OSGi licensing concerns prior to
Incubator graduation
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 12:10, BJ Hargrave (JIRA) wrote:
> 2. The OSGi Specification License 1.0 for the R4 specification states:
"The
> OSGi Alliance ("OSGi Alliance") hereby grants you a fully-paid,
> non-exclusive, non-transferable, worldwide, limited license (without the
> right to sublicense), under the OSGi Alliance's applicable intellectual
> property rights to view, download, and reproduce the OSGi Specification
> ("Specification") which follows this License Agreement ("Agreement")."
The
> full license text in in the front matter of the OSGi R4 specification
> docyuments.
Gang,
The above paragraph mentions without right to sublicense" and IMHO it is
not
totally clear what this means in the implementation context, and I would
recommend you to run it with legal-discuss@ just to make sure, that there
are
no unwanted restrictions on downstream users.
Cheers
Niclas
Re: [jira] Commented: (FELIX-1) Resolve OSGi licensing concerns prior to Incubator graduation
Posted by Niclas Hedhman <ni...@hedhman.org>.
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 12:10, BJ Hargrave (JIRA) wrote:
> 2. The OSGi Specification License 1.0 for the R4 specification states: "The
> OSGi Alliance ("OSGi Alliance") hereby grants you a fully-paid,
> non-exclusive, non-transferable, worldwide, limited license (without the
> right to sublicense), under the OSGi Alliance's applicable intellectual
> property rights to view, download, and reproduce the OSGi Specification
> ("Specification") which follows this License Agreement ("Agreement")." The
> full license text in in the front matter of the OSGi R4 specification
> docyuments.
Gang,
The above paragraph mentions without right to sublicense" and IMHO it is not
totally clear what this means in the implementation context, and I would
recommend you to run it with legal-discuss@ just to make sure, that there are
no unwanted restrictions on downstream users.
Cheers
Niclas