Re: [jakarta.ee-spec.committee] Recent Edits

[Bill Shannon <bill.shannon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Milinkovich wrote on 05/21/18 05:00 PM:

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Participation

Participation in a Specification Project will be limited to parties (the “Participants”) covered under a <<Working Group>> Participation Agreement that will document the intellectual property contributions to the specifications. All Participants with a representative on a Specification Project will grant royalty-free licenses to any Essential Claims (i.e. patent rights) which apply to any Compatible Implementation.

Are Participants always individuals or sometimes companies?  What does "representative" mean in this context?

The licenses are granted only to Compatible Implementations of that specification, right?

Will there be any tracking of Essential Claims that apply to a given specification?

Branding and Certification

There may be multiple Specification Implementations. Compatible Implementations may make use of Specification Implementations.

TCKs must be made available under an open source license.

Any open source license?

For each Specification Version there will be a single corresponding TCK version which must be used to test each Compatible Implementation

Do you want to distinguish between the source code in the TCK project and the separate and fixed TCK bundle that is used to test for compatibility with a specific version of the spec?  Both of which will be available under an open source license?

Specification Documents will be made available under an Eclipse Foundation Specification License (EFSL) that will clearly license all necessary copyright rights to enable independent implementations.

The Brand will be licensed by the Eclipse Foundation for Compatible Implementations of Profiles using an Eclipse Foundation Trademark License Agreement (EFTLA). This EFTLA will contain some TBD commercial terms to ensure the sustainability of working groups which have adopted the specification process. The EFTLA will also be the mechanism by which Compatible Implementations are licensed all patent rights granted by the Participants.

If the TCK is open source, which license will be used to enforce rules around the use of the TCK to prove that an implementation is compatible?  The EFTLA?  Will those rules thus be decided by EF and consistent across all TCKs from all projects?