FW: Q re XML Schema Licensing and standards that contain XML schemas

Fri Nov 5 17:54:15 CET 2010

I mentioned this action item on the teleconference today.

Rex

From: GEHRING Holger [mailto:GEHRING at iso.org] 
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 12:05 PM
To: Jaeschke Rex Mr.
Cc: BRANNON Keith; COOK Richard
Subject: RE: Q re XML Schema Licensing and standards that contain XML
schemas

Dear Rex,

Could you please clarify your request.

To my knowledge the license statement you refer to is exactly the one that
is included in ISO/IEC 29500. In the license statement itself it is referred
to ISO/IEC 29500. Why does the DR then state that there is no license
statement  in the standard and that the "default license" of JTC1  does not
fit. To my knowledge JTC1 does not use this license statement as a default
license statement. 

Best wishes

Holger

Holger Gehring

Legal Adviser

ISO Central Secretariat

www.iso.org

Tel. + 41 22 749 0513

From: COOK Richard 
Sent: 2010-10-22 13:40
To: GEHRING Holger
Cc: BRANNON Keith
Subject: RE: Q re XML Schema Licensing and standards that contain XML
schemas

OK, thanks Holger.

See you on Tuesday.

Bon week-end.

Richard

From: GEHRING Holger 
Sent: 2010-10-22 12:46
To: COOK Richard
Cc: BRANNON Keith
Subject: RE: Q re XML Schema Licensing and standards that contain XML
schemas

Hi Richard, could we talk about this issue first. Next week Tuesday  11 am
in my office if that is convenient for you.

Best

Holger 

Holger Gehring

Legal Adviser

ISO Central Secretariat

www.iso.org

Tel. + 41 22 749 0513

From: COOK Richard 
Sent: 2010-10-20 09:24
To: GEHRING Holger
Cc: BRANNON Keith
Subject: FW: Q re XML Schema Licensing and standards that contain XML
schemas

Hi Holger,

The project editor of ISO/IEC 29500 (OOXML) is asking for guidance about
what text we should include w.r.t licensing of xml schemas (see below).

Can you give him any advice?

Thanks.

Richard

From: BRANNON Keith 
Sent: 2010-10-20 09:09
To: COOK Richard
Subject: RE: Q re XML Schema Licensing and standards that contain XML
schemas

Yes

Thanks

Keith

From: COOK Richard 
Sent: 2010-10-19 12:13
To: BRANNON Keith
Subject: FW: Q re XML Schema Licensing and standards that contain XML
schemas

Keith,

I remember you asking me a few weeks ago about licensing of schemas. Rex is
now asking the same thing, but specifically relating to a Defect Report
submitted against 29500 OOXML.

Should this be referred to Holger?

Thanks.

Richard

From: Rex Jaeschke [mailto:rex at RexJaeschke.com] 
Sent: 2010-10-13 21:07
To: COOK Richard
Subject: Q re XML Schema Licensing and standards that contain XML schemas

Hello Richard, from northern Virginia, USA, where we are having some
glorious early-autumn weather.

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34/WG4 has received a DR against IS 29500, 3 of whose Parts
contain printed and electronic schemas. The DR states, "No license
statements for schemas are included at present.  Thus, the default license
of JTC 1, which is very inappropriate for OOXML, applies." 

The submitter's proposed solution is the following:

"The following permission notice and disclaimer shall be included in all
copies of this schema ("the Schema"), and derivations of the Schema:

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge in perpetuity, to any person
obtaining a copy of the Schema, to use, copy, modify, merge and distribute
free of charge, copies of the Schema for the purposes of developing,
implementing, installing and using software based on the Schema, and to
permit persons to whom the Schema is furnished to do so, subject to the
following conditions:

THE SCHEMA IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SCHEMA OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS
IN THE SCHEMA. 

In addition, any modified copy of the Schema shall include the following
notice: 

THIS SCHEMA HAS BEEN MODIFIED FROM THE SCHEMA DEFINED IN ISO/IEC 29500-1,
AND SHOULD NOT BE INTERPRETED AS COMPLYING WITH THAT STANDARD."

During WG4's deliberations it was noted that there is some related activity
going on in JTC 1. In any event, I was tasked with an action item to, "ask
ITTF for guidance about what text we should include w.r.t licensing of
schemas". Any suggestions you have would be appreciated.

Regards,

Rex

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