Hi Simon,
| I'm a bit unsure about the wording of the proposed copyright notice, which
| a few people have asked for. Who owns the copyright? For lack of better
| I have nominated the editors, myself and John Hughes, but given very
| free-wheeling permission to reproduce the report. I hope that you find
| that acceptable.
You might want to model your wording on what the Scheme folks have done.
The Revised^5 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme, which is a nice
model for language definitions in other respects too, declares:
"We intend this report to belong to the entire Scheme community, and so we
grant permission to copy it in whole or in part without fee. In
particular,
we encourage implementors of Scheme to use this report as a starting point
for manuals and other documentation, modifying it as necessary."
Copyright is not explicitly assigned, but my understanding is that it
naturally
defaults to the editors and contributors, without further ado. If you want
to
see it for yourself, visit: http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/Scheme.html
This seems less restrictive, and hence more appealing than your current
proposal.
All the best,
Mark
