[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: ISO intellectual property (was Standards)
The W3C seems to think otherwise. Note the FAQ quoted earlier about deriving a work from HTML and changing a few bits. We may have a different issue there; copyright vs assertion of other rights in a copyrighted document. If I understand what you say, then the W3C can't enforce those claims. No matter how you slice it, XML is an SGML subset. That makes the reference valuable. If one actually did have to pursue this, copyright violation would not be the strongest case. However, the assertions in the copyright documents might be evidence. As Snell said, it would fail the look and feel test. It is an SGML derivative. Remember, we are debating hypotheticals to determine the value of standards. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Tom Bradford [mailto:bradford@d...] Copyright does not protect intellectual property. It protects the recorded word in various forms. Example, the source code for dbXML is copyrighted. But the fact that it's copyrighted doesn't mean that somebody can't use our techniques to develop their own product. And the fact that we're Apache licensed means that they could even use our source code to do it. But they can't claim that they wrote the dbXML... That's the only thing that copyright protects.
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