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This is a standard reverse engineering trick that was used to make functionally identical, but non-derivative, copied of the original IBM BIOS. Designers with no knowledge of IBM's source code were given a functional spec and required to write a new version from scratch. However, you *might* (as if I understood these things) have a problem in that you already knew HTML 4.0. > > Well, I will squelch the thread using a counterexample. IBTWSH > is by intention an expression of the same schema as (part of) HTML 4.0. > However, it is an independently derived work, which I wrote based on > my *understanding* of HTML 4.0. If I had simply copied the W3C > version and deleted everything which I didn't wish to include in my > subset, it would be a derivative work, but I didn't do that. > > I did, of course, verify (by hand) IBTWSH against HTML 4.0 to > make sure it was a true subset, but that does not interfere with > its copyright status, any more than verifying one dictionary against > another does so, as long as portions of the verifying dictionary > do not find their way into the verified dictionary. > > -- > John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... Matthew Fuchs matt@v... I am, of course, not speaking for my employer xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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