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Standardization documents in xsd and wsdl format



Hi!

Various standardization bodies like e.g. W3C and OASIS that publish data
communication standards, provide xsd and/or wsdl files describing these
standards. These files, though machine readable and parsable by various
interpreters, are often published with a documentation license rather
than a software license since they are considered part of the
standardization document rather than software that helps users implement
the standard. Standardization bodies tend to want to not have random
people making random changes to their standardization documents that
would create incompatible versions of the standards. The documentation
licenses used by these organization therefore usually do not allow
modification.

Are such xsd and wsdl files allowed in Debian source packages, or do
they have to be deleted from the source tarball? Are they allowed to be
installed by Debian binary packages? (I guess the answer to both
questions would be the same.)

Examples:
W3C:
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/databinding/examples/6/09/Include/Include.xsd
OASIS:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-dd/discovery/1.1/os/wsdd-discovery-1.1-schema-os.xsd
BEA Systems et al.:
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/02/trust/WS-Trust.xsd

Debian BTS reference:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=728414

	Mattias Ellert

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