Hey Martin, I think that it might be ok to implement everything as you suggested as long as you do cite OGC/ISO acknowledgements. Does everyone else feel the same way?
Adam On Mar 20, 2013, at 6:29 AM, Martin Desruisseaux wrote: > Hello all > > Since the metadata classes to be committed to SIS implement GeoAPI > interfaces, the Javadoc of those classes reproduce the GeoAPI Javadoc. Not > necessarily identical (they are sometime extended with SIS-specific > explanations), but still close. Those Javadoc are themselves derived from > OGC/ISO specifications (again not identical since they have been adapted to > the Java world). Most of them are single sentences like "Name and position > information for an individual or organization that is responsible for the > resource." > > I asked a while ago to some OGC peoples about that, and I have been told that > this was okay since the goal of the specification authors is to see their > standards widespread. Furthermore, the original texts are already distributed > in XML format at http://schemas.opengis.net (see for example [1]). So if I'm > understanding right, including those texts (in a modified form) in the SIS > Javadoc could be seen as "fair use" in the spirit of standards. Do other > peoples have similar feeling? > > For the classes containing such Javadoc, I add the following paragraph just > below the Apache 2 license. Does it sound something okay? > > This package contains documentation from OGC specifications. > Open Geospatial Consortium's work is fully acknowledged here. > > > Martin > > > [1] http://schemas.opengis.net/iso/19139/20070417/gmd/citation.xsd >
