> Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 13:49:07 -0400 > From: Rintze Zelle <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [xbiblio-devel] use of CSL styles in Peaya with changed > attribution > > In related news, I recently updated the CSL schema to disallow the cs:rights > element in cs:info for dependent styles, as I think we shouldn't bother with > licensing those (none of the existing dependent styles include a cs:rights > element).
Rintze contacted me off-list because (contrary to the above) dependent styles I wrote did use this and other recently removed elements. I'll just throw in my two cents: I think that it was useful for dependent styles to have authors/contributors that have apparently been removed from the schema recently. Rintze also noticed that two of the AIP-dependent styles I wrote used the same title & was able to contact me for clarification. A point of contact is useful for many things. If I see a dependent style doesn't seem quite right for a paper I'm writing, do I fork the style into a dependent one? Do I modify the style it is dependent on, changing the output for all other dependent styles? Or perhaps I should just add an ISSN or other identifying information to let me know that the dependent style applies to some other journal whose name happens to be similar to the name of some different journal I'm actually writing to. Being able to ask for clarification seems like a good thing. I'd like to see the author elements restored. Regarding rights: I know that Bruce has taken the position that ALL CSL styles are not copyrightable. Neither of us are lawyers, but I've talked to lawyers about this issue. Lawyers never give you a straight answer, but the informal consensus I got was that the US copyright laws were so all-encompassing that they probably are subject to US copyright & that we should act as if they are, as we don't really lose anything if we do. The dependent styles are much less expressive than the independent styles & much less is lost if they are somehow used contrary to CC-BY-SA. But I don't know whether this, alone, is reason to remove the rights tag. I suppose I just don't see what real benefit doing that will bring. --Rick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ xbiblio-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel
