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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:04:44 -0800 (PST)
From: "Benson Margulies (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] Created: (LEGAL-40) XmlSchema project wants to check in some
 annoyingly licensed test cases
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XmlSchema project wants to check in some annoyingly licensed test cases
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                 Key: LEGAL-40
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-40
             Project: Legal Discuss
          Issue Type: Question
            Reporter: Benson Margulies


The purpose the the XmlSchema component of the WSCOMMONS project is to produce a conformant implementation of Xml Schema. XML Schema is a W3C standard. There is a test suite for XML schema available from the W3C. The license on the test suite does not encourage/permit modifications.

Currently, the build process for XML Schema dynamically downloads these materials. This is annoying but nonfatal. I would like, if possible, to just check them in where any contributor can check them back out so that the build process can use them without latency and / or connectivity requirements.

I submit for consideration the idea that, as a read-only resource (a set of test cases that the XMLSchema code reads), the various restrictions on the license do not represent a problem in the way that incorporating source code, or data subject to change, might be.

However, I'm no lawyer and a relative newcomer to ASF. 

Checking this into the PMC area really isn't an improvement over the current situation, since it doesn't (so far as I know) allow any way for non-PMC members to read the stuff. If I've misunderstood and the PMC area can be set up so that PMC members put things in and anyone can get them out, I apologize for misunderstanding.

If this won't fly, I'll look for some way to package these items as a maven artifact uploaded to central and then that solves most of the problem.


The entire contents of this directory and all its sub-directories are
         ***Copyright (C) World Wide Web Consortium 2006, 2007***

They are made available under the terms of the
 W3C DOCUMENT NOTICE AND LICENSE,
available online at
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-documents-19990405.html

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