SCA: OSOA Compliant Implementation?

2007-11-28 Thread Barb Cochrane
I have a quick question I hope one of the Apache team can help me with: is Tuscany's SCA 1.0 API a compliant implementation of OSOA's Service Component Architecture Specification? I'm asking because of the OSOA SCA Spec license terms. Thanks in advance! Cheers, Barb ---

Re: SCA: OSOA Compliant Implementation?

2007-11-29 Thread Simon Nash
This has come up for discussion previously on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list (see [1]). The conclusion was that this clause in the OSOA license should not be a concern for Tuscany's implementation of SCA 1.0. Simon [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/200709.mbox/[EMAIL

Re: SCA: OSOA Compliant Implementation?

2007-11-29 Thread Mike Edwards
Barb, (Speaking as one of the OSOA SCA Spec Authors) The OSOA SCA spec terms do talk about "compliant implementations" - but this is a piece of legalese that has no force, since the specifications themselves nowhere define what compliance is. The OSOA SCA specs in fact deliberately left thin