RE: xCBL license? (was) RE: need help

["Burdett, David" <david.burdett@commerceone.com>]

James

You are right that xCBL was developed by Commerce One. The key part of the
license text that states that it is available on an unrestricted basis is
the following ...

>>>Commerce One, Inc. hereby grants to all users of the Common Business
Library (xCBL) DTDs, schemas, and modules (the "Specification"), a
perpetual, nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide right and license to use,
publish, copy, modify and distribute the Specification.<<<

The full text of the license is available at
http://www.xcbl.org/license.html

I hope this helps.

David
PS I agree that the text is hard to find as there is no link from the home
page. We need to fix this.

-----Original Message-----
From: James Bryce Clark [mailto:jamie.clark@mmiec.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 5:42 PM
To: ebxml-dev@lists.ebxml.org
Cc: Burdett, David
Subject: xCBL license? (was) RE: need help


     David, perhaps I'm out of date.  I thought xCBL was owned by and 
proprietary to your company.  I have seen statements along the lines of 
"Commerce One is making xCBL available at no cost" at xcbl.org, but I have 
not been able to find the "unrestricted open license" to which you 
refer.  Can you direct me to a URI?

Thanks.  Jamie Clark

At 03:55 PM 7/12/01, you wrote:
>You might also want to look at xCBL (www.xcbl.org) which is based on an
>analysis of EDI, RosettaNet and other eCommerce standards, is component
>based (similar to core components) and is avaialable in DTDs, XDR and SOX
>(the next version will also include XSD) and is available on a unrestricted
>open licence.
>
>David