Hi,
For Apache Shindig and Apache Rave (Incubating) I'm currently reviewing and
backtracking our legal obligations with respect to (re)distribution of
copyright, notice and license claims, and in this case concerning the OpenSocial
specification usage.
As Apache projects, we're providing and distribute our releases under the Apache
2.0 license (obviously) which requires us (section 4.c) to retain "all
copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices from the Source form of
the Work".
The OpenSocial spec as hosted on http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-resources
carries (only) the Apache 2.0 License, but nowhere is there any mentioning of
copyright, patent, trademark or any other attribution notices. At least none
that I can find.
And I can't find anything of that kind either on http://docs.opensocial.org
I can assume the OpenSocial Foundation does (or should want to) claim some form
of copyright on the specification, but without that being made explicit
*somewhere* (preferably then at least in context of the specification sources),
it is impossible for us to 'do the right thing'.
Right now, Apache Shindig does carry a license [1] which claims copyright by the
OpenSocial Foundation (c) 2009, but I have no way of verifying if that is
(still) correct or even valid as such.
I'm not sure this is the right channel to request input on this, or if
opensocial-bo...@googlegroups.com would be better suited.
If so please let me know and I'll move my request for input there then.
Kind regards,
Ate Douma
Apache Rave PMC member
[1] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/shindig/trunk/LICENSE
