- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 15:17:40 +0200
C Williams wrote: > --- Max Romantschuk <max at provico.fi> wrote: > >>C Williams wrote: >> >>>The W3C Document License >>>under which the specifications are released, states: >>>"No right to create modifications or derivatives of W3C >>>documents is granted pursuant to this license." >> >>Modifications and derivatives do not apply here. A derivative >>work is not the same thing as a new work which references an >>earlier work. Referencing W3C's specs is not an issue. > > Well, 'modifications' and 'derivatives', at face value, are > commonly understood to mean "mutations of the text itself", but > I was wondering what a smart lawyer might make of those clauses. > They can be interpreted a number of ways if needs be, and > nobody's really tried to extend W3C standards externally before > (well yes - they have - but they didn't publish a spec about it, > which actually might have been useful ...) http://www.cs.tcd.ie/15445/15445.HTML Do you think they'd take on the ISO as well, then? ~fantasai -- http://fantasai.inkedblade.net/contact
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