| [dsdp-dd-dev] FW: Click-through for SPIRIT |
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Hi folks, Here is the proposal I made to
Chris Lennard about SPIRIT-DSDP interaction. He is getting the SPIRIT legal
folks to review it. Doug From: Gaff, Doug Hi Chris, Here’s how I envision this: 1.
Specification:
Grab from SPIRIT website. 2.
Schema (*.xsd)
files: TBD 3.
Java / C tooling for
editing IP-XACT xml files, parsing them, debugger implementations using them,
etc: EPL-licensed code living in Eclipse CVS I think we can agree on #1 and
#3. #2 is the tricky part. I assume you are generating schema files
as part of the specification process. These schema files will be used
directly by the tooling. Ideally, I would prefer publically-released
versions of the IP-XACT schema files to live in Eclipse CVS so that they are
present with the tooling that will need to use them. To live in Eclipse
CVS, they must be licensed under EPL. Note that a license is different
from a copyright. They can (and should) still be copyrighted by the
SPIRIT consortium. The EPL license is about redistribution and
modifications rights, indemnification of the Eclipse Foundation, publication
obligations of modification, etc. Of course, anyone who modifies the
schema files violates the standard, but there is a good side to this. You
can use the DD and TM projects in DSDP to experiment with changes to the
specification both in open source and in their commercial products. DWG
members can then review these changes and decide what to incorporate into the
specification. This gives you an open playground for application of the
specification, which I think you want. Anyway, let me know if this
makes sense. I think we can focus the IP discussions on #2 and get this
resolved fairly quickly. Doug |