- From: Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:25:33 +0100
- To: Scheppe, Kai-Dietrich <k.scheppe@telekom.de>
- Cc: "public-w3process@w3.org" <public-w3process@w3.org>
On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Scheppe, Kai-Dietrich wrote: > Hi Chaals, > Can you elaborate? > > I thought that basically citing a spec is perfectly admissible by the current license as long as it is a proper citation. > This seems to validated by [1], where is says a link or URL plus the copyright notice must be provided along with the text that is being used. > > I am not sure what value the full inclusion of the spec has, when a reference is generally enough and also avoids document management issues. Kai is probably right. Here is a personal use case: https://raw.github.com/marcoscaceres/ECMAScriptInJS/master/WebIDL.js Which has: " *This program reproduces parts of the WebIDL Specification (Candidate Recommendation): *http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebIDL/ *Which is copyright © 2012 World Wide Web Consortium, (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, *European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University). *All Rights Reserved. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-documents-20021231 " I'm copy/pasting the whole spec, and I'm coding around it. To the Copyright FAQ [2], I think it would be great if there was a "I'm a Developer, can I copy parts of the specification and redistribute the work?" kind of clarification to handle what I am doing in the above. [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-documents-20021231 [2] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/IPR-FAQ-20000620 -- Marcos Caceres
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