- From: Fred Bone <Fred.Bone@dial.pipex.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 16:20:23 -0000
- To: html-tidy@w3.org
On 19 Mar 2003 at 10:12, Joseph Reagle wrote: > > Hi Dave, > > I've noted some ambiguity with respect to the disposition of HTML Tidy on > SF. I can't find any copyright notice in: > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tidy/ > and on: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/tidy > it does not state the owner, and mistakenly (?) states MIT License. > > The SF FAQ states that the author of the materials is the owner [1] and one > should avoid the misconception that, "software does not actually have a > license holder, because of its free nature." > > [1] http://gro.clinux.org/docs/site/faq.php#whohost-owns > > If the software, or some part, is owned by the W3C, it should have a > document describing the ownership, for example: > http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software-short-notice > http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software > and the SF project should be tweaked to reflect the W3C Software License is > the operative license. > http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=320 > > (If this is not the case, again, it would be useful to have a document > making this clear.) Well, there's the copyright notice in tidy.c, which states it's copyright W3C (MIT, INRI, Keio U). Without doing a whole raft of poking about, I have no idea whether the MIT Licence differs materially from the W3C one, or indeed whether the W3C one existed when Tidy was first released.
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