Re: XProc - patent issues?

I don't think you'd have anything to be concerned about.

XProc is just a specification (a W3C Recommendation), and you're free to
implement it, or implement whatever you wish.
http://www.w3.org/TR/xproc/

That said, there's scads of prior pipeline languages out there, from Ant,
Cocoon pipelines, Orbeon XPL, Deri Pipes, etc, etc... and they're all bound
to share some commonalities.

-Leif

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Ben Griffin // Obyx Author <ben@obyx.org>wrote:

> Recently I was introduced to XProc via a paper written for Balisage 2010.
>
> I was quite astounded. The more I looked at it, XProc appears to be very
> similar to the language ( Obyx, under GPLv3 ) that I and my colleagues have
> been authoring (along with it's engine) since March 2003.
> Indeed, the very early versions of Obyx had identical keywords (such as
> source, sink, and so on).
>
> I am now concerned that at some later date, someone may think that we have
> been using ideas or technologies taken from XProc (which is just not the
> case) and consider legal actions based on copyright, patent, or other IP
> issues. What assurances do I have that this will not happen?
>
> If this is message is going to the wrong place, I apologise, and kindly ask
> you to forward it to the correct person.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ben Griffin
> Author, Obyx
>
>
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