Re: copy-write question

Hi Lisa,

Sorry for the delay with this. I hope it is not too urgent. It will 
eventually be fine but there is some discussion going on that will take 
a few more days. The content needs to be updated in the rules document 
although not in the most important areas of symbol construction.

Best regards,

Russell

On 2020-05-07 11:47 a.m., lisa.seeman wrote:
> Russel, can we store a copy of 
> http://www.blissymbolics.org/images/bliss-rules.pdf on our github?
> We may need to make some changes for accessibility
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> All the best
>
> Lisa Seeman
>
> LinkedIn <http://il.linkedin.com/in/lisaseeman/>, Twitter 
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> ---- On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 18:59:56 +0300 *Russell 
> <russell@blissymbolics.org <mailto:russell@blissymbolics.org>>* wrote ----
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>     Hi,
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>     Yes, Mats is correct here. You can definitely use the numbers. The
>     only question is whether attribution needs to be made.
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>     I am just going through the patent policy document and will be
>     able to give you a definitive answer very soon.
>
>     Russell
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>     On 2019-08-22 11:54 a.m., Mats L wrote:
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>         Hi Lisa,
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>         I hope Russell can give you a quick and proper reply to your
>         questions, but my guess would be that his "no" answer was to
>         your question to the numbers being copyright restricted,
>         rather than to whether someone could use your specification
>         with them for "for profit" products. So probably a bit of
>         confusion there.
>
>         If you stick to the CC-BY-SA license for the Blissymbolics
>         lexicon resources as a whole it does not restrict usage of any
>         kind as long as the same freedoms and restrictions are
>         respected for derivative resources (free use + BY=attribution,
>         and SA=Share Alike). I.e. you can not turn or directly bundle
>         the resource into proprietary products.
>
>         Just for my understanding:
>         I haven't looked further at how you plan to use the numbering.
>         The numbers in ID numbers in themselves would be meaningless,
>         so I suppose you intend to use them with some kind of
>         reference to the concept gloss words and definitions. Is that
>         right? If so, how will this reference be done? Ideally such a
>         reference should also include the so called "Derivation" for
>         each Bliss concept, as the gloss words in themselves will
>         quite often not be unambiguous.
>
>         Cheers,
>         Mats
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>         Den tors 22 aug. 2019 kl 17:19 skrev lisa.seeman
>         <lisa.seeman@zoho.com <mailto:lisa.seeman@zoho.com>>:
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>             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
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>             We would need the licence to be in a stable url to be able
>             to use it in our specification.
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>             All the best
>
>             Lisa Seeman
>
>             LinkedIn <http://il.linkedin.com/in/lisaseeman/>, Twitter
>             <https://twitter.com/SeemanLisa>
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>             ---- On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 19:19:32 +0300 *Russell
>             <russell@blissymbolics.org
>             <mailto:russell@blissymbolics.org>>* wrote ----
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>                 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:
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>                     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
>
>                     LinkedIn <http://il.linkedin.com/in/lisaseeman/>,
>                     Twitter <https://twitter.com/SeemanLisa>
>
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>                     ---- On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 18:42:27 +0300 *Russell
>                     <russell@blissymbolics.org>
>                     <mailto:russell@blissymbolics.org>* wrote ----
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>                         Hi Lisa,
>
>                         The licensing information can be found at:
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>                         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:
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>                             Hi Russell!
>
>                             We are currently hoping to use BCI numbers
>                             as references options in our
>                             specification. See #symbol-explanation
>                             <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
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>                             Twitter <https://twitter.com/SeemanLisa>
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