On Feb 19, 2010, at 8:08 AM, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > GeoffH has made a useful suggestion (on the BO Stack Overflow,
>> If [a spec/standard] is freely modifiable, then it's likely to fragment. >> Look at HTML for an example. Except as I pointed out in my comment to Geoff, the HTML specification is emphatically not freely modifiable, and there is still fragmentation. Here is the specific clause linked to from the HTML 4.01 spec: > No right to create modifications or derivatives of W3C documents is granted > pursuant to this license. However, if additional requirements (documented in > the Copyright FAQ) are satisfied, the right to create modifications or > derivatives is sometimes granted by the W3C to individuals complying with > those requirements. The FAQ says: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/IPR-FAQ-20000620#derivatives > May I modify a W3C specification and redistribute it? May I call it, for > example, HTML 3.2.1? > No and no. W3C does not, in general permit derivative works created from its > specifications in order to avoid interoperability problems. Andrew [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
