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Dean Roddey wrote: > I would think that if I were that organization, and I wanted > my DTD to be ubiquitous, I'd allow any quoting or reference or > embedding, with a requirement to maintain a statement of my authorship > and not to distribute modified copies of it without making that clear. Okay, that's what ya want, huh? Then consider the following: <license type="artistic" author="Larry Wall" contributor="John Cowan"> <preamble> The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a Package may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some semblance of artistic control over the development of the package, while giving the users of the package the right to use and distribute the Package in a more-or-less customary fashion, plus the right to make reasonable modifications. </preamble> <definitions> <dd>Package</dd> <dt> The collection of files distributed by the Copyright Holder, and derivatives of that collection of files created through textual modification. </dt> <dd>Standard Version</dd> <dt> A Package that has not been modified, or has been modified in accordance with the wishes of the Copyright Holder. </dt> <dd>Copyright Holder</dd> <dt> Whoever is named in the copyright or copyrights for the package. <dd>You</dd> <dt> You, if you're thinking about copying or distributing this Package. </dt> <dd>Reasonable copying fee</dd> <dt> Whatever you can justify on the basis of media cost, duplication charges, time of people involved, and so on. (You will not be required to justify it to the Copyright Holder, but only to the computing community at large as a market that must bear the fee.) </dt> <dd>Freely Available</dd> <dt> No fee is charged for the item itself, though there may be fees involved in handling the item. It also means that recipients of the item may redistribute it under the same conditions they received it. </dt> </definitions> <terms> <li> You may make and give away verbatim copies of the the Standard Version of this Package without restriction, provided that you duplicate all of the original copyright notices and associated disclaimers. </li> <li> You may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other modifications derived from the Public Domain or from the Copyright Holder. A Package modified in such a way shall still be considered the Standard Version. </li> <li> You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any way, provided that you insert a prominent notice in each changed file stating how and when you changed that file, and provided that you do at least ONE of the following: <options> <li> Place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise make them Freely Available, such as by posting said modifications to Usenet or an equivalent medium, or placing the modifications on a major archive site such as ftp.uu.net, or by allowing the Copyright Holder to include your modifications in the Standard Version of the Package. </li> <li> Use the modified Package only within your corporation or organization. </li> <li> Rename any non-standard files so the names do not conflict with standard files which must also be provided, and provide separate documentation for each non-standard file that clearly documents how it differs from the Standard Version. This includes generating new Formal Public Identifiers for the Package and any modified contents, unless the Package or its contents had no such identifiers to begin with. </li> <li> Make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder. </li> </options> </li> <li> You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of this Package. You may charge any fee you choose for support of this Package. You may not charge a fee for this Package itself. However, you may distribute this Package in aggregate with other (possibly commercial) files as part of a larger (possibly commercial) publication provided that you do not advertise this Package as a product of your own. </li> <li> The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. </li> <li> THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. </li> </terms> </license> -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) 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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