Is WS-I open? Look at their test license…
November 26th, 2006“WS-I is open industry oganization chartered to promote web service interoperability across platforms, operating systems, and programming languages”
Or so they say. From the WS-I test license:
License Grant: You (the “Licenseeâ€?) are hereby granted a personal, non-transferable and non-sublicenseable, nonexclusive, world-wide, royalty free license (the “Licenseâ€?) to use the WS-I Test Material (including software and documentation) solely for the purposes of evaluating this material and providing feedback to WS-I (the “Licensorâ€?)… You may not distribute copies of the Test Material to other parties for any purpose, including for the purpose of allowing such other party to use the Test Material. Nor may you modify or incorporate the Test Material into any other software.
It seems to me that the licensing is directly opposed to the goal. I can only use the WS-I materials to provide feedback to WS-I. I can’t use it for testing my services to ensure that they conform to the basic profile. For framework builders, the best way to ensure that services built with that framework conform is to integrate the WS-I testing toolkit directly into the build. But, as an open source project, we are not allowed to do that, because doing so would involve redistribution. Whats the point of WS-I if you’re only allowed a personal license?