On Oct 26, 2006, at 4:45 PM, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
Just out of curiousity, why the "No Derivative" part for the license
for the specification? (To be "open" wouldn't anybody need to be able
to make derivatives, and not just one person or more group of people?)
No.
All the protocol licenses I've seen have been pretty evenly split
between cc no-derivs and cc by ( for example: xfn is no derivs, foaf
is by ). All the code ive seen has been similarly split in 'spirit'
No derivs also just means you're making a specification that anyone
can utilize , but only you can change.
Eventually, It'll be released more liberally -- but in terms of being
1 person running their own company and recently having had some IP
infringement issues , the ND makes sense for me to handle management
issues for now.
I don't want to deal with or have time for forking, or 20 people in
succession saying "let me just try this".
Since findmeon is based on / inspired by the xfn / foaf / dsig
specs , people could very well come up with a complete alternative.
they just can't fork it without permission.
// Jonathan Vanasco
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