License and intellectual property#

Specification text#

All OBIS specifications and supporting documentation on this site are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0). You are free to share and adapt the material, including for commercial purposes, provided appropriate attribution is given.

This license applies to the text of the specifications and to the supporting prose on this site. It does not apply to logos or marks, which are reserved.

Source code, schemas, and reference implementations#

Code, JSON Schemas, and reference implementations published under the obi-standards GitHub organisation are licensed under the Apache License 2.0 unless a repository’s LICENSE file states otherwise. Where a specification embeds normative schema fragments in its text, those fragments are covered by the CC-BY 4.0 license of the specification.

Patent policy#

OBIS operates under a royalty-free patent policy modelled on the W3C Patent Policy. By contributing to an OBIS specification, a contributor agrees that any patent claims they hold that are essential to implementing the specification will be made available on a royalty-free basis to all implementers, for the purpose of implementing the specification.

Contributors who cannot make this commitment for a particular contribution must disclose the encumbrance at the time of the contribution. A contribution covered by an undisclosed essential patent claim that is not made available on royalty-free terms may be removed from the specification at the editor’s discretion.

This policy is intended to ensure that OBIS specifications can be implemented without patent royalties by any party, commercial or non-commercial.

Contributions#

Contributions to OBIS specifications (via pull request, issue, or written commentary) are accepted under the licenses and patent policy above. A contributor making a substantive contribution affirms that they have the right to do so and that the contribution is offered under these terms. No contributor licence agreement is required beyond this affirmation.

Questions#

Questions about licensing or the patent policy may be directed to info@obistandards.org.