On Wed, Jul 1, 2020, at 08:35, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Tue, 2020-06-30 at 20:01 +0000, Christian Dürr wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'd like to redistribute the Freedesktop file-uri specification as > > part of the > > terminal working directory notification proposal > > ( > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/terminal-wg/specifications/-/merge_requests/7 > > ), > > to prevent link rot from potentially invalidating the reference to > > the official > > resource. > > > > Is it permitted to copy the full text of the specification and > > redistribute it > > independently? Linking to the original would probably be a good idea > > anyways, so > > if that's necessary that's not a problem. > > > > And if this is permitted, are there any exact licensing terms that > > need to be > > followed (like providing the license together with the > > specification)? > > You'll need to find the original authors so they can attach a license > to it, and you might want to migrate it to the xdg-specs repository as > well. > > I don't think that including that wholesale into your specification > would be needed afterwards, but you could certainly use archive.org > URLs if you want to ensure long-term availability. > > Cheers
I was hoping that I might find the original authors here, since the file-uri-spec page (https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/file-uri-spec/) explicitly points to this list. I'm not sure where I'd find them otherwise, since there's not a lot of information about the authors available. Kind regards, Christian Duerr _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
