Re: [syndication] RSS 0.94

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

Julian, I think there's a disconnect. The copyright is for the writing, not
the format. If you write a spec, which you can, it would have your copyright
on it. If you want one without a copyright, write it. I'm still pretty sure
it'll have a copyright, whether or not you specifically claim it. I am not a
lawyer. You might want to check in with the Creative Commons people, they
*are* lawyers. The timing is excellent. I've cc'd this to Sally Khudairi
who's working with them. Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Bond" <julian_bond@voidstar.com>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: [syndication] RSS 0.94


> Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
> >I think it's a shame that these excellent comments got lost in the noise:
>
> Than you Mark for getting away from meta-discussion about the process
> and getting back to the spec. And comments and discussion about that
> spec.
>
> >> - The removal of the copyright notice. I cannot think of any good
reason
> >> for a corporate copyright disclaimer on a standards specification.
> >
> >As I recall the notice, it isn't unreasonable.
>
> The notice is indeed entirely reasonable. But I look at the RFCs and I
> don't see a copyright notice anywhere. I see an Author.
>
> There's a subtle point here. Regardless of the role Userland took in the
> early development of RSS, the standard(s) are now bigger than them. I
> don't think it's appropriate that there is *any* Userland copyright on
> the spec whether they choose to give up all rights in the notice or not.
> This is not a dig at Userland or any other corporation that might get
> involved. It's a reaction to some of the ambiguity surrounding copyright
> and ownership by some large corporations that have been involved in the
> development of the web services specs.
>
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