concept

Applicable Licenses

Also known as: Applicable Licenses, Applicable License

Facts (10)

Sources

Open Project Rules - OASIS Open oasis-open.org OASIS 10 facts

claimMembers of an Open Project’s Governing Board (PGB) for a project with an Implementer-Class License must irrevocably covenant not to assert patent claims licensable by them that are necessarily infringed by an implementation of a Project Specification approved by that Open Project, within the scope of its Charter, against OASIS or parties benefiting from the Applicable License.

procedureEach OASIS Project Repository is subject to a declared Applicable License selected from a predefined list, and contributors agree in the Contributor License Agreement (CLA) to grant this license to all contributions and releases.

claimGroup Releases in OASIS Open Projects may include multiple Releases that are governed by different Applicable Licenses.

procedureOASIS requires that notices of the Applicable License for each Project Repository be conspicuously visible from both the repository's contribution channels and its home resource pages.

claimAdding a new Applicable License to an OASIS Open Project Repository that is not already in use in other Repositories of that Project requires approval by a Special Majority Vote of the Project Governing Board (PGB).

procedureWhen requesting the creation of an OASIS Project Repository, the PGB must select an Applicable License from the following list of Implementer-Class Licenses: Apache License v2.0, Eclipse Public License v1.0, Eclipse Public License 2.0, BSD-3-Clause License, CC-0, CC-BY 2.0, CC-BY 4.0, or the MIT License.

claimOASIS Open Project Specifications inherit the license rights and covenants of the contributions included within them, as evidenced by the relevant repositories' Applicable Licenses, Contributor License Agreements (CLAs), and the Specification Non-Assertion Covenant.

claimOASIS prohibits the use of its trademarks or service marks in connection with an Open Project or Release, unless the usage complies with the Applicable License and any additional usage guidelines required by OASIS.

claimProject Specifications in OASIS Open may carry multiple Applicable Licenses if they are composed of Releases or Group Releases sourced from multiple Project Repositories that have different licenses.

claimContributed information and pull requests cannot be deleted from any OASIS Project Repository due to the requirements of Applicable Licenses and Archival Permanence rules.