• To: elharo@m... (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
• Subject: Re: re: XML SIG 17 September: Elliotte Rusty Harold on
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 15:03:03 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <p04330101b9a66699b938@[192.168.254.4]> from "Elliotte Rusty Harold" at Sep 12, 2002 11:48:25 AM

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> Hmm, I just checked the OSD, and I think an API absolutely can be 
> open source. In IDL or Java, an API is (or at least can be) code, 
> like any other code, and thus can be published under the GPL, LGPL, 
> BSD, Apache, artistic, etc. licenses.

A good OSI Certified (SM) license for the purpose, IMHO, is the W3C license
(http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software-19980720).  It's
basically an MIT/BSD license, but requires documentation of changes.
Specifically, the DOM Level 2 license, which incorporates this license,
says that if you change the interface, you have to change the package
from org.w3c.dom to something else.

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