xml-dev - Re: The next wave: patent your DTDs

["Frank Boumphrey" <bckman@ix.netcom.com>]

<len>Almost anything
from the W3C comes with a copyright and I suspect, so
will anything from OASIS.
</len>

I suspect that anything that comes from OASIS will have a copyright notice
similar to DocBooks.

"Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute the DocBook DTD and
     its accompanying documentation for any purpose and without fee is
     hereby granted in perpetuity, provided that the above copyright
     notice and this paragraph appear in all copies."

"If you modify the DocBook DTD in any way, except for declaring and
     referencing additional sets of general entities and declaring
     additional notations, label your DTD as a variant of DocBook."

Now this is how things should be done!

Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: Len Bullard <cbullard@hiwaay.net>
To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
Cc: xml-dev <xml-dev@xml.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 7:50 PM
Subject: Re: The next wave: patent your DTDs


> Tim Bray wrote:
> >
> > I'm making an effort to let my amusement over the profound silliness of
> > patenting a DTD counteract my disgust at the business climate that makes
> > this kind of behavior thinkable.
>
> This surprises you?  Despite the notion that copyrights may be
> more appropriate, shouldn't they be able to protect their IP?
> Patenting seems a little expensive for this.
>
> The fact that unless two entities share a common definition
> makes the DTD nothing more than a design document
> doesn't say much for their plan to reuse it or sell it.
> Dumb and dumber.  We went through this problem with GE
> as early as 1989 when they and/or the Navy wanted IP
> protection for the DTDs we wrote then.
>
> The auto industry has a copyright on their DTD and they used it.
> In many relational db businesses, copyrighting the schema
> is assumed and distributing it to customers comes with
> the usual warnings about redistribution.  Almost anything
> from the W3C comes with a copyright and I suspect, so
> will anything from OASIS.
>
> As for the business climate, as the twig is bent....
>
> len
>
>
>
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