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From: "Henri Yandell (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] [Closed] (LEGAL-109) [POLICY] Resolve "Unmodifiable
 Standards" Exception
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     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-109?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Henri Yandell closed LEGAL-109.
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    Resolution: Won't Fix

> [POLICY] Resolve "Unmodifiable Standards" Exception 
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LEGAL-109
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-109
>             Project: Legal Discuss
>          Issue Type: Task
>            Reporter: Robert Burrell Donkin
>            Assignee: Robert Burrell Donkin
>
> ATM in "Previously Asked Questions"[1] (see below) an exception for small source documents unlikely to be modified is included in the weak-copyleft section but is missing from the no-modifications. I'm not clear that this was intentional, and understand that - in practice - projects already use the exception for reasonable licenses which do not allow modification.
> I think it would be clearer to introduce a new category (category-s) which applies an exception to both weak-copyleft licenses and some no-modification licenses used by some standards bodies. 
> -------------------------------------------
>   How should so-called "Weak Copyleft" Licenses be handled?
>      ...
>     For small amounts of source that is directly consumed by the ASF product at runtime 
>     in source form, and for which that source is unmodified and unlikely to be changed 
>     anyway (say, by virtue of being specified by a standard), inclusion of appropriately labeled 
>     source is also permitted. An example of this is the web-facesconfig_1_0.dtd, whose 
>     inclusion is mandated by the JSR 127: JavaServer Faces specification.  
> <snip>
>   How should licenses that prevent modification be handled?[3]
>    There are licenses that give broad rights for redistribution of unmodified copies. 
>    Such licenses are not open source, but they do satisfy the second and third 
>    guiding principles above.
>    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.
> -------------------------------------------
> [1] http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html
> [2] http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-b
> [3] http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#no-modification



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