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

[Bob Simons - NOAA Federal]

I think/hope that a given version of ACDD can't change. So if SIS quotes
from ACDD 1.3 and identifies it as a quote from ACDD 1.3, there shouldn't
be a synchronization issue.

On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 10:39 AM, David Neufeld via Esip-documentation <
esip-documentation at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:

> Hi Martin,
>
> Is the content being incorporated into Java docs? I guess it's not clear
> to me initially why the content needs to be copied, and putting aside legal
> questions, then it becomes potentially more of a synchronization issue.
>
> cheers,
> Dave
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 11:12 AM, Erin Robinson via Esip-documentation <
> esip-documentation at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:
>
>> 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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Bob Simons
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