OpenMath Society Royalty-Free (RF) Licensing Requirements

The OpenMath Society holds the copyright for all documents on the www.openmath.org site with the exception of contributed Content Dictionaries for which copyright remains with the original author as specified in each Dictionary.

• The Copyright holders undertake that the OpenMath Standard, Content Dictionaries and other documents available from www.openmath.org are available free of charge and allow implementations to be made available under a Royalty-Free license.
• The Royalty Free license shall be made available by the licensor as long as the Document is current.
• If the Document is rescinded by the OpenMath Society, then no new licenses need be granted but any licenses granted before the Document was rescinded shall remain in effect.
• With respect to a Document distributed under this policy, a Royalty-Free license shall mean a non-assignable, non-sublicensable license to make, have made, use, sell, have sold, offer to sell, import, and distribute and dispose of implementations of the document.

OpenMath Society 2013-12-01

Notes:

• This version of the OpenMath Royalty Free License policy was put in place by the OpenMath Society on 2013-12-01 however it also applies to the existing OpenMath Standard and Content Dictionaries.
• The OpenMath 1 standard (2000) and most of the core Content Dictionaries were developed under an EU ESPRIT project http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/rcn/38330_en.html in which all materials and any underlying patent licenses that may be required were made available by project members on a Royalty Free basis as part of the contract terms of that project.
• The OpenMath 2 standard and the updated Core Content Dictionaries were developed under the EU funded OpenMath Thematic network http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/rcn/60953_en.html. All contributions under this project were made available under Royalty Free basis, and Copyright assigned to the OpenMath Society.
• Contributed Content Dictionaries: All Contributed Content Dictionaries that do not have an explicit license statement or have a license compatible with this policy will be moved new directory http://www.openmath.org/cd/contrib.nonfree/ area.