BPEL licensing - deja vue / resolution

Folks,

 

My thought of the day is that I have been 
here

done all this before. Only last time it was 
Borland

that provided the means to break the 
impasse.

 

Remember when the legal world was frozen 
into

thinking that software users had to sign-off on 
a

twenty page+ licensing agreement?

 

And then Borland came out with its no 
nosense

approach that printed on to the back of the 

envelope the disks came in?

 

We've also all seen this from NDA doc's 
that

are impossible to sign - but people have 

sensible, legible and concise two or 
three

pagers of those now too.

 

My suggestion is that you take matters 
into

your own hands at the F2F.  Sit down 
around

a laptop and edit together a concise 
licensing

agreement that looks good to you - take all 
five

mega-doc's - consolidate, delete, and 
fixup.

 

Then as a group of contributors to the TC 
you

will have what you think is a fair and 
reasonable

license to use.   

 

As I see it the bottom line is that either the 

original contributors follow through on 
their

intent on bringing BPEL into OASIS, and 

benefiting from all the hard work the TC is doing 

on making the specifications workable, 
or

it ends here as a specification only they can 
use.

 

Hope you have a productive time in 
Florida.

 

DW