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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>[apologies in advance for cross-posting]<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I'm sending this to OSI license-discuss@ to see if there is any interest in having OSI review these agreements for compatibility with the OSD. /Larry<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>****************<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>The Board of Directors of the <a href="http://www.openwebfoundation.org/">Open Web Foundation</a> has unanimously approved the publication of the final version 1.0 of two Contributor License Agreements (CLA) and two Final Specification Agreements (OWFa). The OWFa and CLA are model agreements designed to be used by a wide range of communities and organizations for specifying standard functionality for computer software, whether open source or proprietary, regardless of the software license. To date, OWF agreements have been used by Esri, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and others.</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><br><br><span class=apple-style-span>The OWFa and CLA grant copyright and patent rights for implementations of a specification, ensuring that downstream consumers may freely implement and reuse the licensed specification without seeking further permission. In addition to the agreement itself, we also created an easy-to-read FAQ that provides a high level overview of the agreements. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Links to the OWF model agreements:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><a href="http://www.openwebfoundation.org/legal/the-owf-1-0-agreements/owf-contributor-license-agreement-1-0---copyright-and-patent">CLA 1.0 - Copyright & Patent</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><a href="http://www.openwebfoundation.org/legal/the-owf-1-0-agreements/owfa-1-0">OWFa 1.0 - Copyright & Patent</a><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><a href="http://www.openwebfoundation.org/legal/the-owf-1-0-agreements/owf-contributor-license-agreement-1-0---copyright">CLA 1.0 - Copyright-only</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><a href="http://www.openwebfoundation.org/legal/the-owf-1-0-agreements/owfa-1-0---patent-only">OWFa 1.0 - Patent-only</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>To use the agreements with your own specifications, please see our FAQ:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><a href="http://www.openwebfoundation.org/faqs/open-web-foundation-cla-1-0-owfa-1-0-faq">FAQ for Contributors, Supporters, Implementers and Users of Open Specifications</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>The Open Web Foundation is open to everyone without charge and we actively solicit feedback and participation from the community at large, whether or not you are Open Web Foundation members. Interested individuals are encouraged to join the Open Web Foundation general discussion list to offer input and support. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>We encourage public comments and suggestions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>/Larry Rosen on behalf of the OWF Legal Drafting Committee<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>