-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6/12/13 3:10 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 2:10 AM, Peter Waher > <[email protected] <mailto:[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.
I do insist. Peter, please change the examples. XEP-0072 should give you examples that are usable. If not, contact me off-list and we'll work on that together. Peter Saint-Andre XEP Editor, Executive Director, and Chief Bottle-Washer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.19 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRuGbWAAoJEOoGpJErxa2pC/AP/3zGMBpVWn6Z9gPVKGzK72u5 j4GQnlucwKMLCOB7efU6ohhIdj078YgWdvXIDpP8zAIZ6IrNPpTEh9DUl5HHQQsa 93WMLDlHz1pPOwLTHACxcg2lcKxkp8T+UworLPfy4vrOXMU5f6FKHp01aiT2Re+F eYLETWGGc1IyKnGPhOWsRz2kER7ExIhqwc/bxKHWyp0x1RrhOmH5uah+3olZQsg6 R7t/75Rof8/mq41qKyl2Rcp7zU31ZUosW5KHb4fXJpc+6+07xH4Hd8Uc6GvaRrBe 2X6azWj64Et89bRJbaaeZteTJsOKCX880Oqjs6TESAP/oWA+WvBY06aIlXgrRt8X PkTE2pHYx5UEp3fCmZc6l0FBAGgmVN3tcNcN2GTukeYE1yeFGtw89SZyB/P0mfnc GcviOZoGaSAe2L6XURsq+OeKAH63jiDShg5sJH6VyT2OsdDL5zhxHagxM2q2edI1 r4A2DXwW7Rzx9At/MYb9wAczOpD2C5Jq5txELg6OXFhTWu/c+oOUOnFsHDeeLy7S FRYfgW426YdDo/f1xW3VmxT3RK8taQibQSeG4BxL10K9PvF0lRDUGu3b7RA+xvxC 2FuO+V1+PJM5TwqWbkkOcqAFhRjHLVO/CQJ1suJYhsN7B9Q6NejVINcCslRIanDK o9XTK0s9F0W9A/1LoU7d =taJa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
