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At 05:49 PM 1/10/00 +0100, Lars Marius Garshol wrote: > >* David Megginson >| >| As we move to SAX2, I was wondering what licensing we should use? >| Is public domain still OK? > >Personally, I think so. Does anyone have any good arguments for >something more restrictive? > I think it is valuable to have a minimal copyright which preserves authors' moral rights. My (limited) understanding of "public domain" is that anyone can do anything with a PD document, including scraping off the original author's name and replacing it with others or modifying the content to the detriment of the author(s) intentions. This could happen without malice - the commonest might be abbreviating a document which changed the intention of the author. A good example of this - which I appreciate and respect - is that Jon Bosak requires that his Shakespeare/Religion XML examples not be modified. My feeling is that "reference" documents like APIs should also not be modified, certainly not by unmarked deletions. P. 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/ or CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 Please note: New list subscriptions now closed in preparation for transfer to OASIS.
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