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OASIS Open Project

Also known as: OP

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Open Project Rules - OASIS Open oasis-open.org OASIS 33 facts

claimAny person, regardless of OASIS membership status, may participate in an Open Project as a Contributor by submitting comments or bug reports to a Project Repository.

claimMaintainers or other parties are prohibited from deleting content in an OASIS Open Project, although they may treat contributed material as superseded or deprecated; the original form of each contribution must remain available for review and use through version control or document management methodologies.

claimOpen Project work and administration are conducted by participants in the roles of Contributor, Maintainer, Project Governing Board (PGB), Technical Steering Committee (TSC), and Chair.

claimAny person or entity, regardless of OASIS membership status, may participate in or contribute to an OASIS Open Project.

procedureAn Open Project proposal must include a Charter containing a brief statement of purpose and a scope of work, which acts as a limit on the approval of Project Standards Track Work Products.

claimThe Chair(s) of an OASIS Open Project are responsible for conducting and administrating the decision processes of the Project Governing Board (PGB) and the project, consistent with OASIS rules.

claimContributors to an OASIS Open Project irrevocably covenant not to assert any patent claims licensable by them that are necessarily infringed by an implementation of their contribution, provided that the contribution is included in a Project Specification approved by the Open Project.

referenceFor the purposes of the OASIS Open Project patent covenant, 'specifications' include documentation, data flows, data formats, application programming interfaces, and process descriptions.

procedureThe Open Project Administrator must provide a written response regarding the approval or disposition of an Open Project proposal.

procedureTo initiate an OASIS Open Project, the organizers must submit a Charter to the Open Project Administrator, written in English and provided in electronic plain text format, using the Open Project Charter Template.

claimAn OASIS Open Project is a program hosted by OASIS for the development of code, specifications, and other artifacts under open source licenses selected by the project.

referenceIn the context of the OASIS Open Project patent covenant, works that 'Implement or Derive From' a contribution or specification include: (a) specifications to the extent derived from code, (b) independent code implementations of a specification, and (c) independent code implementations of a specification to the extent the specification is derived from code.

claimAny product of an OASIS Open Project composed from contributions to the Project Repositories is eligible for approval as an official Release.

procedureOASIS is required to post a public notice of each approved Open Project to its announced public mailing list.

procedureAn Open Project Charter must specify the number of initial Project Repositories and the Applicable License for each repository.

procedureContributions and the merger of contributions into an OASIS Open Project's work are managed primarily through one or more open source Project Repositories.

procedureThe Project Governing Board (PGB) may approve a set of Releases or subsets of Releases as an official Group Release of an OASIS Open Project, provided they give at least fourteen days' notice to all contributors via Project Tools before initiating a vote or consensus call.

procedureTo initiate an OASIS Open Project, a group must consist of at least one or more Project Sponsors whose aggregate sponsorship dues meet or exceed the minimum threshold set by the OASIS Board of Directors, plus one or more named Contributors.

claimOASIS Open Projects are administered by the OASIS Open Project Administrator designated by OASIS.

procedureIn the OASIS Open Project process, when the Project Governing Board (PGB) or a consensus of contributors identifies a set of contributions as a Release, Group Release, Draft Project Specification, or Project Specification, the Maintainers must organize the material in the Project Repository as a distinct branch known as a Designated Branch.

procedureTo incorporate a trademark or service mark into an OASIS Open Project, including in the project name, any release, or the body of the work, the mark must be either owned by OASIS or approved by the OASIS Board of Directors.

claimThe official Project Tools for an OASIS Open Project include the Project's Repositories, a principal web page for each Project, and at least one official mailing list for administration.

procedureEligible voters in an OASIS Open Project may change their vote on an electronic ballot up until the end of the voting period.

claimSubscription to official OASIS Open Project mailing lists is open to anyone and is subject to the OASIS Mailing List Guidelines.

procedureThe Charter of an Open Project can only be amended after the project's formation as specified in Section 5.6 of the OASIS Open Project Rules.

procedureAll contributions, comments, decisions, records, web pages, documents, and mailing list discussions for an OASIS Open Project must be located on Project Tools designated or authorized by OASIS, must be publicly visible, and must be publicly archived.

procedureThe Project Governing Board (PGB) may approve a Designated Branch as an official Release of an OASIS Open Project after providing at least fourteen days' notice to all contributors via Project Tools before initiating a vote or consensus call.

procedureThe Chair(s) of an OASIS Open Project may specify a voting period longer than the seven-day minimum for a particular electronic ballot.

procedureTo advance a Release or Group Release as a Project Specification Draft (PSD) or Project Specification (PS) in an OASIS Open Project, the proposal must conform to the Project Specification template provided by the Open Project Administrator, which includes methods for identifying Designated Branches and Applicable Licenses.

procedureA Contributor License Agreement (CLA) is a prerequisite for the acceptance of pull requests or other substantive contributions to an Open Project.

procedureAn OASIS Open Project is initiated by one or more organizations acting as Project Sponsors and optionally by persons intending to make technical contributions.

procedureSubsequent Project Repositories within an OASIS Open Project may be opened by a decision of the Project Governing Board (PGB), or if the PGB elects to adopt a Standing Rule that permits it, by a Technical Steering Committee (TSC) or a designated maintainer.

claimThe statement of purpose in an Open Project Charter is informative rather than normative.