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Code includes OGC schemas #306

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kalxas opened this issue Jan 11, 2015 · 7 comments
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Code includes OGC schemas #306

kalxas opened this issue Jan 11, 2015 · 7 comments
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kalxas commented Jan 11, 2015

Linked with #275

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kalxas commented Jan 11, 2015

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kalxas commented Feb 15, 2015

Excellent e-mail from Sebastiaan on this issue:
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/standards/2015-February/000842.html

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kalxas commented Feb 15, 2015

Also, this issue did not block us to include pycsw to openSUSE, Fedora and UbuntuGIS.

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kalxas commented Feb 15, 2015

I think I have reached to a solution:

By carefully reading this document (paragraph 5.10)
http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/legalfaq#DTD

"Schemas (and DTDs) are frequently part of our specifications and seemingly fall under the document copyright terms. However, as long as you do not use the same formal namespace or public identifier to identify that modified OGC schema/DTD (which might confuse applications), you may treat the schema/DTD under the software terms. This means that you are permitted to make a derivative or modified OGC schema/DTD, but even under the software terms you are obligated to include/retain the OGC copyright notice. We further appreciate a couple sentences regarding who made the modifications, when, and what changes were made in the original DTD -- a common software documentation practice."

and by taking into consideration these two links:
Document terms: http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/document
Software terms: http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/software

I think that we just need to add the OGC Software Notice in our schemas folder. This will solve the problem.

I have made a Pull Request to that direction:
#313

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tomkralidis added a commit that referenced this issue Feb 16, 2015
Added OGC Software Notice to address OGC schemas issue (#306)
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kalxas commented Feb 16, 2015

I have edited our Code Provenance wiki page, downgrading the issue to a warning (from a fixme)

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