OSI Branding for GeoVRML and tsmApi licenses

[Martin Reddy]

Further to the instructions on the OSI web page, we at SRI would like to
submit two software licenses for consideration as branded Open Source
licenses. These are

 1. The GeoVRML 1.0 license - produced to cover the source distribution 
    of the GeoVRML effort. This provides an extension to the ISO Virtual
    Reality Modeling Language (VRML97) for supporting geographic 
    applications. The license can be found on the web at:

      http://www.geovrml.org/1.0/license/

 2. The tsmApi 1.0 license - produced to cover the source distribution
    of SRI's Tile Set Manager API. This API provides routines for reading,
    creating, and querying large multi-resolution terrain datasets over
    the web. The license can be found on the web at:

      http://www.tvgeo.com/tsmApi/license/v1.0/

Both of these licenses are based largely upon the Mozilla Public License
version 1.0, which is of course already an OSI branded license. The main
differences beyond some minor syntactic and structural changes are mostly a
tightening of the IP issues to provide greater protection, e.g.

 - Use "Distributor" in place of Mozilla's "Contributor", so that 
   anybody who distributes under this license will be covered.

 - Changed the definition of Modification, using the established legal
   concept of "derivative work", and also providing an exception for
   pure library-style use.

 - A Distributor Registration clause has been added so that we can keep
   track of modifications and have more opportunity to merge these into
   the mainline.

 - An Attribution clause to require notice of use of the library in any
   documentation for a Larger Work

 - For the tsmApi library only, we have added a clause excluding from the
   license any "developer-level exposed API" that is incompatible with our
   Documented API. This was done so that the API is respected in any 
   modifications.

We are happy to have these two licenses reviewed by the license-discuss list
and to have our identification posted (SRI International). I have attached
ASCII versions of both license to this message for your convenience.

Many thanks,

Martin.


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Martin Reddy                                   SRI International, AI Center
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