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Task
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Won't Fix
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Description
ATM in "Previously Asked Questions"[1] (see below) an exception for small source documents unlikely to be modified is included in the weak-copyleft section but is missing from the no-modifications. I'm not clear that this was intentional, and understand that - in practice - projects already use the exception for reasonable licenses which do not allow modification.
I think it would be clearer to introduce a new category (category-s) which applies an exception to both weak-copyleft licenses and some no-modification licenses used by some standards bodies.
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How should so-called "Weak Copyleft" Licenses be handled?
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For small amounts of source that is directly consumed by the ASF product at runtime
in source form, and for which that source is unmodified and unlikely to be changed
anyway (say, by virtue of being specified by a standard), inclusion of appropriately labeled
source is also permitted. An example of this is the web-facesconfig_1_0.dtd, whose
inclusion is mandated by the JSR 127: JavaServer Faces specification.
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How should licenses that prevent modification be handled?[3]
There are licenses that give broad rights for redistribution of unmodified copies.
Such licenses are not open source, but they do satisfy the second and third
guiding principles above.
Apache projects must not include material under such licenses in version control
or in released source packages. It is however acceptable for a build process to
automatically download such non-software materials like fonts and standardized data
and include them in the resulting binaries. Such use makes it clear that these
dependencies are not a part of the open source code of the project.
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[1] http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html
[2] http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-b
[3] http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#no-modification
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LEGAL-111 Are OASIS or W3C schema files OK to include in Apache releases?
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