Dear all, Find enclosed the new draft of the Legal Notice that must govern the FI-WARE Generic Enabler Specification (FI-WARE GES). The current proposed Legal Notice is very much based on the Legal Notice that the Object Management Group (OMG), a widely recognized industry standard body author of widely used standards such as UML, BPMN and CORBA In it, we´ve taken into account the inputs received. The objective is to create a unique text applicable to all the FIWARE GES. In this unique Legal Notice it will figure the Copyright notice of the relevant FIWARE Partners creating this GES. We kindly ask you to focus the debate exclusively in the yellow marked paragraphs referred to the "Essential patents and the licenses granted to them. Regarding these paragraphs, we wonder whether their inclusion may be against the clauses of our CA which establish that any party should be able to implement products in compliance with FI-WARE GE Specifications royalty-free: Notwithstanding any conflicting terms in this CA, but subject to Annex 3 and Section 3.4.3.3, the FI-WARE Generic Enabler Specifications will be made publically available on royalty free terms. For the sake of clarity, Parties signing this CA as well as any other third party may, subject to additional conditions or agreement where requested by a Party/ the Parties develop and release implementations of the FI-WARE Generic Enabler Specifications on a royalty-free basis. To some extend, the proposed language says "don't worry, you will not be sued by us because infringing a essential patent" but, on the other hand, it may be interpreted by someone as implicitly supporting the idea that "we could ask you for royalties if you infringe a patent we could consider non-essential" ... wouldn't claiming for any patent be something against the clause in the CA ? We would like to gather your opinion to close the Legal Notice. Based on comments and results of the discussion, we will propose a final language by Thursday, so if you have any opinion on the matter, please let us know by Tuesday evening at the latest. Best regards Luis García García Asesoria Jurídica // Legal Department Tfnos: +34 914832614 // +34913129666 Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo, S.A.l DISTRITO C- Edificio Oeste 1, 5ª planta Ronda de la Comunicación s/n 28050-Madrid (España) [cid:image002.png at 01CD4D2C.98156090] ________________________________ Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario. Puede consultar nuestra política de envío y recepción de correo electrónico en el enlace situado más abajo. This message is intended exclusively for its addressee. We only send and receive email on the basis of the terms set out at http://www.tid.es/ES/PAGINAS/disclaimer.aspx -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.fiware.org/private/fiware-legal/attachments/20120618/d25007f2/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.png Type: image/png Size: 23732 bytes Desc: image002.png URL: <https://lists.fiware.org/private/fiware-legal/attachments/20120618/d25007f2/attachment.png> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: fi-ware Legal notice 18th june.doc Type: application/msword Size: 41472 bytes Desc: fi-ware Legal notice 18th june.doc URL: <https://lists.fiware.org/private/fiware-legal/attachments/20120618/d25007f2/attachment.doc>
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