FYI - Article about OASIS IPR controversy

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Subject: FYI - Article about OASIS IPR controversy




From: Michael Smith <>
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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:20:33 +0900






ZDNet has a good article about the controversy that has arisen
around the OASIS Intellectual Property Rights Policy[1].

  [1] http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5585711.html?tag=nl.e589

Lest you are inclined to write this off as just a kneejerk reaction
from some gang of extremist rabble rousers, note that Lawrence
Lessig and Tim O'Reilly were among the people who signed the "A
Call to Action in OASIS"[2] broadside mentioned in the article.

  [2] http://perens.com/Articles/OASIS.html

I realize this does not directly affect the DocBook TC, since we
have no plans to adopt RAND-mode licensing. But it troubles me
quite a bit to be financially supporting an organization whose
leadership has chosen (over that objections of many of its own
members) to adopt an IPR policy that gives anyone the option to
potentially collect royalties from implementors of a standard
whose development they participated in.

  --Mike