Hello Rob
Thanks for spotting this licensing issue. Yes, Apache has a legal
division. I just created a ticket asking the question:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-311
Alternatively I know the original author of ACDD specification.
Depending on the answer we will get from the legal team, I could send an
email to him asking if he would suggest an approach.
Martin
Le 30/05/2017 à 18:51, Rob Wallace a écrit :
> Hello Martin
>
> Thank you for your reply drawing attention to copyright issues, and I
> agree with your comments.
>
> I see the ACDD page we use states at the end: "Content is available
> under GNU Free Documentation License 1.2
> <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html>."
>
> So it seems we must try to re-word everything to not be a copy or,
> copy and follow the licence and acknowledge and reproduce it etc. It
> would good if we could get a specific release somehow from these
> obligations, as all we are trying to do is to implement the very ideas
> that have been specified in ACDD. However, the licence does legally
> cover their material because they have specified that it does.
>
> In the preamble of the Javadoc we do refer to the ACDD. We could also
> add something more specific about the licence that may satisfy it, but
> it does get complicated. I have no experience of having to honour a
> GNU Free Documentation Licence with material embedded within
> modifications. The solution may even be a simple one solved by an
> introductory statement of acknowledgement in the licence's terms.
>
> Does Apache have some legal division who could advise us as to best
> practice in the circumstances? Other users of such licensed standards
> must have come across this and similar problems as well.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Rob
