- From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
- Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 15:31:10 -0800
- To: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Cc: www-dom@w3.org
> > Alternative proposal: type in the "org.w3c.dom" interfaces by > > hand, don't use the sources W3C provides. > > Doesn't work. By hand or by computer, you are creating a derivative > work, which is forbidden by the license. That seems extreme, but neither of us is a lawyer and sometimes licences have had major bugs. I think that your interpretation would preclude implementations in C, C++, Python, and other languages. After all, since the spec defines interfaces, all implementations must be derivative. Yet only the Java binding actually includes code for the interfaces. - Dave
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