Re: LDP Test Cases licensing

Hi,

As a simple solution, can't we (W3C WG) do the transformation ourselves and
provide the RDF data as a separate companion document under W3C Test Suite
licens or W3C 3-clause BSD License. Because the test suite document is RDFa
annotated, it will make it easy to keep the two documents in sync if we
follow a policy that we will never tweak the RDF data file manually but
generate it by extracting the RDFa annotated data whenever the test suite
document is modified.

So basically everything remains the same but we remove the transformation
step from the users and instead W3C, as the owner of the document, does it
for the user. What do you think ?

Best Regards,
Nandana



On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Sergio Fernández <
sergio.fernandez@salzburgresearch.at> wrote:

> Perfect. Thanks!
>
>
> On 03/04/14 20:51, Arnaud Le Hors wrote:
>
>> Hi Sergio,
>>
>> Thanks for bringing this up. Clearly, you should be allowed to convert the
>> tests to Turtle without problems so, we'll look into it.
>>
>> Regards.
>> --
>> Arnaud  Le Hors - Software Standards Architect - IBM Software Group
>>
>>
>> Sergio Fernández <sergio.fernandez@salzburgresearch.at> wrote on
>> 04/02/2014 11:36:45 PM:
>>
>>  From: Sergio Fernández <sergio.fernandez@salzburgresearch.at>
>>> To: "public-ldp-wg@w3.org" <public-ldp-wg@w3.org>,
>>> Date: 04/02/2014 11:37 PM
>>> Subject: LDP Test Cases licensing
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> implementing the Test Cases [1] in Marmotta I came up with a formal
>>> detail [2] that may need to be discussed in the WG: Currently the
>>> document Test Cases is licensed W3C Document License [3], which contains
>>>
>>
>>  the following clause:
>>>
>>>     "No right to create modifications or derivatives of W3C documents
>>>     is granted pursuant to this license. However, if additional
>>>     requirements (documented in the Copyright FAQ) are satisfied,
>>>     the right to create modifications or derivatives is sometimes
>>>     granted by the W3C to individuals complying with those
>>>     requirements."
>>>
>>> In Marmotta we are caching the Test Cases data in Turtle, which I think
>>> could be considered a "modifications", at least that's what I understand
>>>
>>
>>  from the FAQ [4]. Although this is not clear since those terms that
>>> apply to content do not apply so well for data.
>>>
>>> A quick workaround would be to cache the Test Cases data in live, but
>>> I'd prefer to actually address the issue.
>>>
>>> We have been discussing at ASF [5], and Andy points that "as a test
>>> suite, it would normally be dual licensed under W3C Test Suite license,
>>> which does not permit modifications and W3C 3-clause BSD License". Part
>>> of the conflict comes because in our cases the both data and document
>>> are the same. So it's something to check to avoid issues.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/ldpwg/raw-file/b3683634c29f/Test%20Cases/LDP%
>>> 20Test%20Cases.html
>>> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MARMOTTA-480
>>> [3] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-documents-20021231
>>> [4] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/IPR-FAQ-20000620#format
>>> [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-199
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sergio Fernández
>>> Senior Researcher
>>> Knowledge and Media Technologies
>>> Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH
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>>> sergio.fernandez@salzburgresearch.at
>>> http://www.salzburgresearch.at
>>>
>>>
>>
> --
> Sergio Fernández
> Senior Researcher
> Knowledge and Media Technologies
> Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH
> Jakob-Haringer-Straße 5/3 | 5020 Salzburg, Austria
> T: +43 662 2288 318 | M: +43 660 2747 925
> sergio.fernandez@salzburgresearch.at
> http://www.salzburgresearch.at
>
>