Ted Guild writes:
> W3C is creating an excerpt license (current draft online [1]) and
> hoping to get public review and feedback, including particularly from
> the Open Source community.
The complete license is reproduced below, for easy review on
debian-legal.
One problematic part seem to be (my emphasis):
Permission to copy, to use, to create derivatives of parts of the work
(but not the entire work), or to create extended citations or
^
excerpts, without fee or royalty is hereby granted provided that the
licensee:
I think this fails DFSG#3 which requires that you can create derivative
works.
Further, this part:
The target content must not create a derivative specification.
It appears to fail DFSG#6 which requires that the license do not
discriminate against some fields of endeavor.
/Simon
[Draft] W3C® Excerpt & Citation License
Status: This document was announced publicly on 4 March 2009. Please send any
comments to site-pol...@w3.org by 18 March 2009.
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Help systems.
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