-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 5/23/13 10:52 AM, Ralph Meijer wrote: > On 2013-05-23 16:55, Dave Cridland wrote: >> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Peter Saint-Andre >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 5/23/13 1:55 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: >>> The timing's now reached the perfect level of irony, I think. >> >> It's not clear to me that the XSF can legitimately publish other >> people's extensions, or that third parties can submit other >> people's extensions. I'm all for documentation, but we might not >> be able to do that in the XEP series. >> >> >> It's not clear to me why not. >> >> We certainly couldn't if this were lifting text from someone >> else's documentation - it's not - it's merely documenting an XMPP >> extension, and as far as I'm aware there is no restriction on our >> doing so - it's purely a copyright issue. > > Two reasons I can come up with are copyright and patents on the > protocol itself. I'm not sure in which jurisdictions copyright is > applicable and/or enforcible to protocol, but at least the US and > the EU seem to have provisions for this particular case [1]. > Patents, well, there might be dozens of patents covering our > existing protocols. I don't want to know about those, if I can help > it.
Yeah, I would simply prefer to stay away from documenting other people's extensions for various IPR reasons. > On top of that, our own ventures in this area, SIFT specifically, > are functionally equivalent and/or overlapping. Speaking of which, I need to incorporate some feedback into the SIFT spec and maybe we can push it forward. Peter - -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.19 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRnlDCAAoJEOoGpJErxa2pAb4P/RY/+INLG/qQJcFkEhDGrKp6 FXw2rczsF0WQct4RUAYqqRFVpOPWQYTXPIYyBImo0DiWzAJVJmN+4kKF3vJv38xN aixFq0nWckaK2WPQ5yr5BXevbK3s8/FyGNavp1kvEfAK0kkAiWsCsxOX80awfS33 rjEyW1CQdOAot1LWye821o2h32BtQssNYZblOOWOVKMzqE3nNMqGije7b7qkHDxw RxxLqLj3Jb1W4IM4Fj5fwHWS+ionwXJejpzEYtdgCV9RTae9gZpiY9ZYQ1Kzm8nv CWDbWd53Vs7P9h/qki64TxZbxvnxiWvev6sLKbXdMPqPgsmYE85qEoorKG7NboDj gY5br/MrBRQcP6ghFLX3XTjFF9xnFrP9OujF/QRb5WlUr69K0ujLM2eA4LEksGky W5mhm18yPw47J/QtlkPtotVVrw5WZDHvb7mGSiAE+KHu4SreMwjacB6QiZmUyjs0 h5kYDexSDS03R41gNYhpVzkRc8g4upQLubTVJCj17cjweMxqLgUMsjdSKPM+jkGL 2OVEJ7m4H1RCz2qO8DmYiJEI0LecvPZR9bB+cdEbII2EoAzGMwdsvakFNdMQ0J36 YpByRaoGso3TzW+LKwNrAZJI/jwcfF17hl8deByWDZFhYiPsw508N75QK3QniQ4L D7RzGewZA9R0bo2Sk+Ki =a1aO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
