Re: copy-write question

Hi Russell

What time frame do you think it will take to get a decisions if we can use the BCI numbers in the specification in keeping with the w3c patent policy at  https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy 


We would need the licence to be in a stable url to be able to use it in our specification. 


All the best

Lisa Seeman

http://il.linkedin.com/in/lisaseeman/, https://twitter.com/SeemanLisa





---- On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 19:19:32 +0300 Russell <mailto:russell@blissymbolics.org> wrote ----



Hi Lisa,
 
 Well, that is a question that has never been asked before! My
    initial reaction would be "no" but let me run it by the board just
    in case. 
 
 Russell 
 
 On 2019-08-20 7:03 a.m., lisa.seeman
      wrote:






Hi Russell



Thanks for getting back to us so quickly. 



We are just talking about using the BCI reference number.
          Not the actual symbols.

We need people to be able to use the specification for
          profit applications without paying royalties.



Are the BCI numbers subject to copywrite and if so can
          people make a "for profit" product that uses them (such as a
          web page) royalty free?


All the best
 
 Lisa Seeman
 
 http://il.linkedin.com/in/lisaseeman/, https://twitter.com/SeemanLisa
 
 



---- On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 18:42:27 +0300 Russell mailto:russell@blissymbolics.org wrote ----



Hi Lisa,
 
 The licensing information can be found at:
 
 http://blissymbolics.org/index.php/licensing
 
 If you have any further questions about it, I am currently
              the person to talk to. Attribution would be the only
              requirement, I think.
 
 For ISO codes, there is an older ISO 8859 encoding but it
              is no longer used or kept up to date. A proposal for a
              Unicode encoding is in a very advanced stage and hopefully
              that will become formalized very soon. There are some
              technical issues with how indicators are overlaid on
              symbols that is holding things up a bit but I am
              optimistic that this obstacle will be overcome very soon.
              However, the new Unicode encoding will consist of
              Bliss-characters - ie the building blocks of the language
              - and thus not contain every Bliss-word but only those
              words that are also Bliss-characters. So for a numbering
              system that refers to all Bliss-words, the BCI-AV numbers
              are the ones to use. It is by far the most widely used
              indexing. As far as other possible ISO standards such as
              7001 or 7010 but for complete pictographic/ideographic
              languages, I'm not even aware of a standard let alone
              Bliss being part of it.
 
 Russell
 
 
 On 2019-08-19
                11:06 a.m., lisa.seeman wrote:






Hi Russell!



We are currently hoping to use BCI numbers as
                  references options in our specification. See  https://w3c.github.io/personalization-semantics/content/#symbol-explanation

Is there any copy-write involved? What licence
                  would that be under and is there a web link to it?



Also do you know if any symbol sets have ISO
                  codes?



All the best
 
 Lisa Seeman
 
 http://il.linkedin.com/in/lisaseeman/, https://twitter.com/SeemanLisa