Thanks for the call this morning. To
summarize: The following five files have licensing agreements that differ in
the current WTP 1.5 release from their public links (follow the links below to
see the current, cleaner licensing language). Our concerns were that
- You
may have reviewed the “modern” language instead of what we
have in WTP today, since we would likely have provided you with URLs in
the contribution questionnaire rather than copies of our files.
- Even
if you *did* review the
earlier language, the current one seems distinctly clearer and preferable,
and we would like to use that instead to avoid any IP ambiguity, provided of
course that you’re in agreement on that point. Note that there is no
change to the content of these files versus what we have today; this is
not a version change request, just a licensing clarification question.
Here are the 5 URLs. Note that the “encoding”
one has slightly different language than the other four.
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/wsdl-http.xsd [This is the one you and I looked at this morning]
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/
[This one is slightly different than the others]
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/
Let me know how you’d like to
proceed for our 1.5 release (use the existing language we have now or update to
the versions below). My apologies for having this come up late in the game, but
it just came to our attention. Thanks,
Tim
From: Janet Campbell
[mailto:janet.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006
2:19 PM
To: Tim Wagner
Subject: RE: Concern about WSDL4J
schema files
I’ll block it off. Talk to you
then.
Janet
From: Tim Wagner
[mailto:twagner@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006
5:14 PM
To: Janet Campbell
Subject: FW: Concern about WSDL4J
schema files
Janet, can we talk about this Friday morning,
perhaps 7am PDT / 10 am EDT if you’re available? Shouldn’t take
more than 10-15 minutes.
From: Jeffrey Liu
[mailto:jeffliu@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 1:37
PM
To: Tim Wagner
Cc: David M Williams; Arthur
Ryman; Raghu Srinivasan
Subject: Concern about WSDL4J
schema files
Hi Tim,
I'll
use http.xsd as an example, but the same arguement apply to the other schema
files as well. First of all, here's a copy of the current http.xsd file that we
have in WTP:
If you
open this file, you'll find the following statement in there:
The presentation, distribution or other dissemination of
the
information contained herein by
Microsoft is not a license,
either expressly or impliedly, to any
intellectual property owned or
controlled by Microsoft.
If I
remember correctly, the concern back in WTP 0.7 for not shipping these schema
files is that these files do not have an explicit in it. Also, the Web site
where we got these files does not have a license either. In another word,
there's no licenses associated with these files and that's why we cannot ship
them.
Since
WTP 0.7, I believe Adrian
worked with the owner of the Web site and had them update the files with an
explicit license. If you check the Web site again, notice a new license has
been added to the file:
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/
License for WSDL Schema Files
The Authors grant permission to copy and
distribute the WSDL Schema
Files in any medium without fee or
royalty as long as this notice and
license are distributed with them.
The originals of these files can
be located at:
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/wsdl-http.xsd
I
believe this is the version that Janet approved. What I suspect is that after
we got approval to ship these files in WTP, we added the old files instead of
the new files which contain the new license. Tim, can you confirm with Janet
this is really the story? If so, we should refresh the schema files. Thanks.
Jeffrey
Liu
IBM Rational Software
IBM Toronto Lab.
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