Re: [syndication] RSS 0.94

[Ben Hammersley <ben@benhammersley.com>]

On Tuesday, Sep 3, 2002, at 21:38 Europe/London, Julian Bond wrote:
> And yes, the copyright notice at
> http://backend.userland.com/rss#copyrightAndDisclaimer is reasonable 
> and
> explicitly notes, "Further, while these copyright restrictions apply to
> the written RSS specification, no claim of ownership is made by 
> UserLand
> to the format it describes". As you say, Userland is explicitly not
> claiming ownership of the spec, which is good.

This is indeed very good, and the way I always saw it.

Two things as a matter of clarification, however:

1) If a an RFC-style spec document was written up, would Userland 
host/support/linkto it?

2) Why did Userland attempt to claim ownership of the name "RSS" by 
trademarking it? As per:
http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=78025336