Joint Submission request to W3C by W3C Members Marimba Incorporated and Microsoft Corporation
We, Marimba, Inc. (along with Microsoft Corp., please reference separate submission declaration from Microsoft) hereby submit to the Consortium the following specification comprising the document(s) linked below:
which collectively are referred to as "the submission". We request the submission be known as the "OSD" submission.
This document provides an initial proposal for the Open Software Description (OSD) format. OSD, an application of the eXtensible Markup Language (XML), is a vocabulary used for describing software packages and their dependencies for heterogeneous clients. We expect OSD to be useful in automated software distribution environments.
Marimba agrees that, upon adoption of this contribution as a W3C standard, any W3C member will be able to obtain a license from Marimba to implement and use the technology described in this contribution for the purposes of supporting the Internet Standard on a royalty-free basis. One condition of this license shall be the party's agreement to not assert patent rights against Marimba and other companies for their implementation of the Internet Standard. Marimba expressly reserves all other rights it may have in the material and subject matter of this contribution.
Marimba expressly disclaims any and all warranties regarding this contribution including any warranty that this contribution does not violate the rights of others or is fit for a particular purpose.
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The submission may distributed within the membership of the W3C free of any fee. The submission may be distributed publicly free of any fee
The following points should be noted as regards licensable technology involved in any third party implementations of the technology specified in the submission: There are no known issues at this time beyond typical platform- and implementation-dependent software engineering.
We suggest that the Consortium consider this proposal as part of the Push Workshop scheduled for September, 1997.
Marimba can not commit resources at this time however we look forward to providing assistance from time to time.
Should any changes be required to the document, we would expect future versions to be produced by W3C process.
Inquiries from the public or press about this submission should be directed to:
Beth Johnson, 650-463-0177 <beth@marimba.com>
Bob Schettino, 650-596-2700 <bobtino@thomaspr.com>
this 13th day of August, 1997 by Marimba, Inc. (in conjunction with Microsoft Corporation: please see separate submission declaration)
which collectively are referred to as "the submission". We request the submission be known as the "OSD" submission.
This document provides an initial proposal for the Open Software Description (OSD) format. OSD, an application of the eXtensible Markup Language (XML), is a vocabulary used for describing software packages and their dependencies for heterogeneous clients. We expect OSD to be useful in automated software distribution environments.
Microsoft agrees that, upon adoption of this contribution as a W3C standard, any W3C member will be able to obtain a license from Microsoft to implement and use the technology described in this contribution for the purposes of supporting the Internet Standard on a royalty-free basis. One condition of this license shall be the party's agreement to not assert patent rights against Microsoft and other companies for their implementation of the Internet Standard. Microsoft expressly reserves all other rights it may have in the material and subject matter of this contribution.
Microsoft expressly disclaims any and all warranties regarding this contribution including any warranty that this contribution does not violate the rights of others or is fit for a particular purpose.
N/A.
The submission may distributed within the membership of the W3C free of any fee.
The submission may be distributed publicly free of any fee
The following points should be noted as regards licensable technology involved in any third party implementations of the technology specified in the submission: There are no known issues at this time beyond typical platform- and implementation-dependent software engineering.
We suggest that the Consortium consider this proposal as part of the Push Workshop scheduled for September, 1997.
To help with this work, we expect to be able to provide one non-resident document editor as well as reference source code to the Consortium.
Should any changes be required to the document, we would expect future versions to be produced by W3C process.
Inquiries from the public or press about this submission should be directed to:
Thomas Reardon <thomasre@microsoft.com>, Microsoft Corp.
this 12th day of August, 1997 by Microsoft Corporation (in conjunction with Marimba, Inc. please see separate submission declaration)