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Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:56:02 +0100
From: Mike Edwards <mike.edwards.inglenook@gmail.com>
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Folks,

At present, I believe that the OSOA SCA specifications do not contain 
any actual conformance statements that would allow anyone to judge 
whether an implementation is compliant or not.  As a result, this 
restriction is somewhat moot.

As a result, I don't consider this restriction of great concern to Tuscany.

The situation is likely to be very different when it comes to the OASIS 
versions of the SCA specifications.  OASIS requires conformance 
statements and the OASIS SCA TCs have charters which not only require 
the creation of conformance statements in the specifications but also 
require the creation of Test Suites for each of the specs.  In this 
respect, the OASIS SCA specifications will be closer to the JCP JSR 
process, which requires a test suite to be created alongside the 
specifications.

Folks who have views on conformance and test suites for SCA are welcome 
to submit their ideas to the relevant OASIS SCA TCs.


Yours,  Mike.

Jeremy Boynes wrote:
> The recent Tuscany distribution contains XSDs licensed under the OSOA 
> license[1] which contains the following:
> "Permission to copy, make derivative works of, and distribute the 
> Service Component Architecture
> JavaDoc, Interface Definition Files and XSD files in any medium without 
> fee or royalty as part
> of a compliant implementation of the Service Component Architecture 
> Specification is hereby granted."
> 
> Is the restriction to a "compliant implementation" a field of use 
> constraint that Tuscany project should be concerned about?
> -- 
> Jeremy
> 
> [1] http://www.osoa.org/xmlns/sca/1.0/license.txt
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