Re: Copyright of test materials

> It does strongly suggest we (SPARQL-WG) need a LICENSE, and probably a
> NOTICE file, in each directory.


Is this something we should put on the agenda in one of the coming conf. calls? (If we need that we at least need to action someone to draft the notice and put it in each directory, right?

Axel

On 13 Dec 2011, at 10:46, Andy Seaborne wrote:

> Sandro,
> 
> Helpful (I didn't know that tests were separately licensed).
> 
> It does strongly suggest we (SPARQL-WG) need a LICENSE, and probably a
> NOTICE file, in each directory.  Ideally, each test file would have a
> one liner to refer to this, and the manifest needs the longer form.
> 
> If we agree, this can be mechanically add to the test suite.
> 
> I hope we do not need to put the ~30 line W3C License in each file
> because that's quite heavy weight for such small files.
> 
> The LICENSE file would contain the content of:
> http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2008/04-testsuite-license.html
> (W3C Test Suite Licence)
> 
> and the NOTICE file is an assertion of copyright
> 
> """
> The files in this directory included material that is
> (c) 2011 World Wide Web Consortium, (Massachusetts Institute of
> Technology, European Research Consortium for Informatics and
> Mathematics, Keio University) and others. All Rights Reserved.
> """
> 
> This does not define the copyright situation - and I see that the test
> suite license says "and others" and
> """
> THIS WORK IS PROVIDED BY W3C, MIT, ERCIM, KEIO UNIVERSITY, THE COPYRIGHT
> HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS"
> """
> so the answer seems to be that the copyright is retained by the original
> submitter.  This makes sense as copyright transfer is different in
> different jurisdictions (if it is possible at all).
> 
> IANAL.
> 
> This makes sense as copyright transfer is different in different
> jurisdictions (if it is possible at all).
> 
> I would like to get a definitive answer or at least one that has some
> precedence.
> 
>         Andy
> 
> 
> On 13/12/11 05:32, Sandro Hawke wrote:
> > Quick answer, on my way to bed.  Maybe this helps:
> > http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2008/04-testsuite-copyright.html
> >
> >      -- Sandro
> >
> 
>

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