P040801: ODMA License

Type: Software License Agreement	Project ID: P040801
Style: Ad hoc	Status: Proposal Review
Objective: 1. Create an explicit license for ODMA that formalizes the practice by which ODMA has always been distributed. 2. Establish a clear understanding with regard to the free use, redistribution and creation of the covered work and its derivative works. 3. Use a recognized, widely-used license as the archetype for the ODMA license. 4. Give developers confidence that they are free to employ, distribute, and adapt the ODMA software. 5. Give users and other developers certainty around the identification of covered works and further information about availability and source code.	Related information/projects: 1. The Open Source Definition 1.9 (`.mht` archive) 2. The 1999 BSD License 2004 Template (`.mht` archive) 3. SDM License 0.01 draft
Assigned To: Dennis E. Hamilton	Defined By: Dennis Hamilton (2004-08-23)
Date Opened: 2004-08-23	Date Completed: none
Requirements Constraints Activities

1. Requirements (2004-08-25):

Have a license that is well-known and that allows what people have already been doing with ODMA.

Require no administration nor registration and make it easy to incorporate the license and notices in covered materials.

Have the explicit agreement of AIIM International, the copyright holder, to the use of the license.

Complete this quickly and simply so that those who requested it are not delayed in their endeavors.

2. Constraints (2004-08-25)

Do not restrict anything that people have already been able to do.

Do not in any way limit the ability to employ the material and its derivatives in closed-source works, commercial or otherwise. The contributors to ODMA were all in commercial firms that donated their efforts to achieve a community result that was too costly and restricted for any one of them to undertake independently. The tacit assumption of that agreement and the willingness to support something like the Simple DMware license was continued availability for commercial, closed-source usage.

3. Activities (2004-08-25)

2004-08-23: Establish this project

2004-08-24: Obtain reference materials on the Open Source Definition and The BSD License for comparison and review as part of appraisal of the draft ODMA license.

2004-08-25: Document the offered license draft.

2004-08-25: Determine the materials and the copyright dates to be covered.

2004-08-25: Derive a first-draft license that is a literal employment of the BSD template.

2004-08-25: Conduct Review and Obtain AIIM Approval

Make adjustments as necessary to satisfy reviewers

Announce the license and make it available immediately for use and reference, with the following items carried out afterwards as part of a refresh of ODMA materials.

Prepare collateral material useful to those wanting to find the original sources, wanting to understand the license, and wanting to honor it with derived materials

Determine all existing components for which affixing of notices, licenses, and incorporation of copies of the license are desirable.

Perform a refresh of downloadable materials so that future downloads will be accompanied by appropriate copies of the license and notices will be affixed in appropriate ways.

Make announcements on the ODMA web site and elsewhere.

0.11 2004-08-26 Clarify/Colorize the Actions

The in-progress action has the green bar, the important, immediate actions are in green bold, and the subsequent, non-critical-path items are in bold gray. This scheme moves forward through the actions as items are completed (blue bar) or abandoned (yellow bar).

0.10 2004-08-25 Issue first draft for review

A draft using the BSD License template is produced for review as appropriate and expedient.

0.00 2004-08-23 create placeholder to morph into the necessary material.

Incorporate job jar and use it to drive the completion of essential items here

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