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Re: legals and disclaimenrs [was review all terms by cluster? refine the clusters? copyright? [was] Re: Proposal for a domain

From: Gavin Treadgold <gt@kestrel.co.nz>
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:52:00 +1200
To: W3C Ontology List Disaster Management <public-disaster-management-ont@w3.org>
Message-id: <AC6B470B-5BDC-438D-B727-40E603CDFFFE@kestrel.co.nz>

Actually, I'm not quite sure how that is relevant - they are only  
referring to patents, not other forms of intellectual property,  
namely copyright. Most standards are protected by copyright, not by  
patents.

Cheers Gavin

On 22/06/2007, at 17:52, Renato Iannella wrote:

>
> On 22 Jun 2007, at 15:04, paola.dimaio@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Renato and all, I take that we can put that item on the agenda?  
>> (to do)
>> we need some blanket stataments to cover us, unless we are  
>> automatically
>> inheriting them from w3 practices already in use?
>
> W3C has very good "royalty-free" policy when it comes to standards.
>
> I will propose that the Incubator Group follows Option 2 from here:
>
>  <http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/procedures.html#Patent>
>
>
> Cheers...  Renato Iannella
> NICTA
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