- From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:27:19 +1100
- To: public-svg-wg@w3.org
Hello WG. In discussions about the license W3C uses for the Java interface files in the Apache XML Commons project[1] (which includes various DOM interfaces, as well as the SVG interfaces) it seems that the SVG 1.1 Java interfaces[2] use a slightly different license. The various DOM interfaces are licensed under the W3C Software License[3] with an additional clause[4] that states that the Java package name must be changed if other changes are made to the interface. So, some questions. First, was it a conscious decision not to use that additional clause (and if so what was the reasoning)? Second, if the W3C were to have a policy on whether to include this clause for all published Java interfaces, would we rather it be included or not? (See [5]). Thanks, Cameron [1] http://xml.apache.org/commons/#external [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/java-binding.zip [3] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231 [4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2009JanMar/0064.html [5] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2009Jan/0004.html -- Cameron McCormack ≝ http://mcc.id.au/
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