[Please Cc: me, I'm not on debian-legal.] I plan to package the W3C's Java bindings for DOM <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM -Level-1/java-language-binding.html>. The recent versions of my XT package needs it, so either I package it, or "potato" is released without a XSL tool, which will be a problem in the XML "market".
I am not sure we can put the Java bindings in "main". The licence <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1/copyright-notice.html> says "No right to create modifications or derivatives is granted pursuant to this license." which seems to exclude freedom to modify. I understand that DOM is intended to be normative and therefore not modified at will, and that the Java bindings are not a real program but more a formal specification (technically, they are a Java interface, something close from a C ".h") but it still bothers me. Any advice? Any rule for standards or similar documents, which are not programs? [Remember the thread about the GPL being... non-free, for a similar reason.]
