On Fri, 15 May 2026 at 02:16, Thilo Molitor <[email protected]> wrote:

> And also what Dave said: an author writing a pre-XEP and then walking away
> before it becomes a "proper XEP" would be a problem if the pre-XEP was
> just a
> wiki page or something else without assigning copyright to the XSF: even
> if
> someone wanted to work on the pre-XEP and advance it to a "proper XEP",
> that
> wouldn't be possible unless the original author assigned copyright to the
> XSF,
> but that may never happen.
>
>
I realised there's a much simpler case where keeping pre-XEPs outside the
IPR policy causes horror. If multiple people collaborate on a pre-XEP, then
they all have a claim on the copyright. It'd be slightly harder to move the
pre-XEP under the IPR policy than to relicense a typical open-source
project - you need to contact every author, etc.

Dave.
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