Background

Blogpost: http://www.how2map.com/2015/02/a-good-test-for-ogc-and-osgeo.html

Discussion on OSGeo-Standards mailing list: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/OGC-XML-schemas-and-FOSS4G-software-distribution-td5186023.html

This issue is not new, however was raised in the OSGeo Standards mailing list as a result of the pycsw Incubation process

Problem Statement

FOSS4G software may encounter distribution issues when including OGC Schemas as part of the codebase.

Use of OGC XML Schemas in FOSS4G Implementations

used to re-publish schemas:
- XML responses cite xsi:schemaLocation of pointing to locally cached OGC schemas
  - e.g. xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.opengis.net/cat/csw/2.0.2 http://HOST/csw/2.0.2/CSW-discovery.xsd">
used within software to perform XML schema validity of XML based HTTP requests
others?

Distribution

Debian

Examples of rejection by Debian:

Current Text

Per http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/legalfaq#DTD, paragraph 5.10:

Schemas (and DTDs) are frequently part of our specifications and seemingly fall under
the document copyright terms. However, as long as you do not use the same formal namespace
or public identifier to identify that modified OGC schema/DTD (which might confuse
applications), you may treat the schema/DTD under the software terms. This means that you
are permitted to make a derivative or modified OGC schema/DTD, but even under the software
terms you are obligated to include/retain the OGC copyright notice. We further appreciate a
couple sentences regarding who made the modifications, when, and what changes were made in
the original DTD -- a common software documentation practice.

Document terms: http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/document Software terms: http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/software

Proposed Text

TBD

OGC XML Schemas and FOSS4G Software Distribution

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