Thomas Charron:
> Richard Laager wrote:
> > Where's the *harm* in allowing people to redistribute derivative works?
> People possibly change the spec, and distribute it indistinguishable
from the original.
> But then I suppose that could be taken care of by clarifying that the
derivative must be clearly marked as such.
Yes, I think we should require that modified versions must be clearly
marked as such. IMHO, that is an important service for readers - who
might stumble upon a modified copy of the standard and not bother to
obtain the original, simply because they assumed the copy was identical
(humans are lazy), or because they don't know where to look.
Otherwise Peter's text (see below) looks good to me.
- Ian
Peter wrote:
I am thinking of a legal notice along the following lines...
******
This XMPP Extension Protocol is copyright (c) 1999 - 2007 by the XMPP
Standards Foundation (XSF) and is in full conformance with the XSF's
Intellectual Property Rights Policy (a copy of which may be found at
http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/ipr-policy.shtml or obtained by writing
to XSF, P.O. Box 1641, Denver, CO 80201 USA). Permission is hereby
granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this
specification (the "Specification"), to make use of the Specification
without restriction, including without limitation the rights to
implement the Specification in code and to read, copy, modify, merge,
publish, translate, distribute, sublicense, or sell copies of the
Specification, and to permit persons to whom the Specification is
furnished to do so, subject to the condition that this copyright notice
and permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial
portions of the Specification. THE SPECIFICATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS",
WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR, OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF, OR IN
CONNECTION WITH THE SPECIFICATION OR THE IMPLEMENTATION OR OTHER USE OF
THE SPECIFICATION.
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