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Nonsense? Hmm. Usually a legal test is required to determine who owns intellectual property and I contend that regardless of the copyrights, SGML constitutes intellectual property, but let's say you are right. "A profile is not a derivative work." Interesting position. No safeguards at all. Just open ranges, sheep, cattlemen and hired guns. What happens if the W3C decides that XML is not to be a profile in the future, but a completely separate work? What happens if ISO decides to ammend SGML such that all of the features of XML are now SGML features, including refining a series of application languages based on it that include all of the features of the W3C specifications without referencing the originals (today XML is an SGML subset so a deal was made)? Is Microsoft free to extend Java in any way they see fit as long as they don't call it Java and someone calls Java a "standard"? Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@r...] Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > Let me repeat this > so it is clear what I mean: SGML belongs to ISO just as surely > as XML does to the W3C. The SGML standard is copyright ISO, that's true. But the XML Recommendation does not appropriate any of ISO's copyrights. (AFAIK ISO has no patents, trade secrets, or trademarks save perhaps "ISO" and the various full forms.) > Were one to repeat Jon's endeavor > today, any one of several organizations could under the international > laws that seek to arbitrate disputes among trading partners fire > down on that person or self-selected group like a crow with a > machine gun. IOW, the original SGML On The Web SIG would be in jail. Eh? Nonsense. There is nothing illegal about making a profile of an International Standard, or publishing it either. A profile is not a derivative work. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <jcowan@r...> no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein
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