[Esip-documentation] Question on licensing of "Attribute Convention for Data Discovery 1.3" wiki page content

[Erin Robinson]

Hi Martin -

These are good questions. I would like to confer with documentation cluster
and ESIP leadership on this and will get back you late next week.

Erin

Erin Robinson
Executive Director
ESIP - Earth Science Information Partners
esipfed.org | 314.369.9954

On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 3:40 AM, Martin Desruisseaux via Esip-documentation
<esip-documentation at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:

> Hello all
>
> I'm a contributor of the Apache Spatial Information System (SIS) project
> [1] from the Apache Software Foundation. The project implements the
> "Attribute Convention for Data Discovery (ACDD)" [2] specification from
> ESIP in our netCDF file reader. For making maintenance easier, SIS
> reproduces part of ACDD documentation in its own documentation. However the
> bottom of ESIP wiki page said that the content is licensed under GNU Free
> Documentation License (GFDL) 1.2, which would imply that it can not be
> included in Apache projects. After a short discussion on Apache Legal [3],
> we wanted to ask a few questions:
>
>    - Is ESIP fine with an Apache licensed implementation of the ACDD
>    specification?
>    - How much of the documentation can be copied to assist with the
>    implementation?
>    - Is the ACDD specification under GFDL license, or only the wiki site?
>
> Thanks,
>
>     Martin
>
> [1] http://sis.apache.org
> [2] http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Attribute_Convention_for_Data_Discovery_1-3
> [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-311
>
>
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