On 07/30/2018 04:10 PM, mail@clusums.eu wrote:
Hi,
thank you for all the help.
DMTF came back and they are having concerns about adding software license to these type of files. They don't consider these files to be software, but to be documents (similar as specification of Redfish standard). They are going to update the copyright statement[1] to show this clarification.
Would that help?
Well, documents are copyrighted just like code, so DMTF would need to say what license they're releasing the documents under. Creative Commons licenses are popular for documents and data. Some Creative Commons licenses are compatible with Apache 2.0 (make sure it isn't one of the "Non-Commercial" variants). You're still better off having users download the DMTF files separately. And, no matter how the users get the files, DMTF needs to release the files under some form of open content or open data license, so the users have permission to use the files. Allison