On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 2:10 AM, Peter Waher <[email protected]>wrote:
> >The biggest outstanding issues are the unclear copyright ownership around > the SOAP examples. The appear to be from W3Schools, > > but it is unclear if you have rights to place them into a XEP, which > then requires you to assign those rights to the XSF. We cannot accept this > proto-XEP until the copyright issues are resolved. > > I thought it would be instructive to use common or known examples. It > would fall under "fair use" in copyright law. (It is also sufficiently > changed to not be a literal copy.) It's also clearly attributed, with > reference to originator. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use Stop right there. 1) Fair Use is not a universal concept, so it's a dangerous one to use. 2) The XSF doesn't operate on license, it operates on assignment, so Fair Use and Attribution and all those other things don't apply. So writing the W3C Schools for permission to use their examples doesn't help, because that's a license, and asking them to assign copyright on their examples to the XSF is just a non-starter. If it were my decision - and it's not, I hasten to add - I would insist the examples had to be replaced. Dave.
