[xsd-users] Licence Query for OSS projects

[Boris Kolpackov]

Hi Bradley,

Bradley Beddoes <beddoes at intient.com> writes:

> I am currently working on a library which will be open sourced under the
> Apache 2.0 license when it is completed. In addition to loading and
> manipulating XML documents using the generated code from XSD it will
> perform signature validation using Apache XML security, public key
> resolution/management and verification of supplied data to prevent for
> example replay attacks amongst others.
>
> In my understanding of the FLOSSE file distributed this would clarify it
> as a member of the 1a scenario, and Apache 2.0 is a supported free
> software license, is this correct?

Apache 2.0 is a supported free software license. However to say whether
your case falls under the FLOSS exception or not, we will need a little
bit more details on what useful functionality you will provide on top of
the generated code (i.e., what does "manipulating XML documents using
the generated code" really means in your case).

I believe that the Apache XML security library does its job on raw XML.
If that's the case then the fact that you use it is not relevant since
it does not depend on the generated code in any way (I can be mistaken
here, of course). It would also be helpful to know how do you expect
the clients of your library to use it.

Please feel free to email me privately if you would rather not go into
details on the public mailing list.



> In addition to the above I hope to be able to feed back to you a list of
> quite complex schema developed by OASIS that XSD supports once
> everything is working well for inclusion on the supported schema pages.

This would be great, thanks.


hth,
-boris
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