On Sep 1, 2013, at 7:57, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote:
> Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
>> It's starting off on the wrong foot to assume that Ecma is a money grubby
>> organization that is using copyright to enrich themselves (do you know that
>> if you ask, Ecma will send you, for no charge, a printed and bound copy of
>> any Ecma standard). Ecma's primary concerns is the integrity of its
>> standard. It doesn't want individuals making changes and then distributing
>> those documents , as if, they were the actual approved standards.
>
> But of course (and I hesitate to say this, lest es-discuss become
> es-wannabe-lawyers-discuss) that's a matter that could be addressed both by
> copyright and by trademark law. It's not a sufficient reason for a copyright
> license, at least not given precedent of open source and CC0 or equivalent
> specification source.
>
> /be
Please file a proposal on http://wiki.ecmascript.org/ to change the license.
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