[legal] Copyright status of OpenID Specs text itself

[Simon Josefsson]

"Nat Sakimura" <sakimura at gmail.com> writes:

> Yes indeed. I suppose we need to make them freely available. XMPP Style
> permission is nice and liberal but I am not sure of the implication when it
> is applied to a translation project on wiki, since it looks it is possible
> to make a partial translation of it and control it under the translator's
> exclusive copyright. In case of GFDL it does not happen, because derivative
> work is also covered by GFDL.

As far as I can tell, the XMPP license requires you to retain the
copyright notice and the license in all derivative works, so I don't
believe that is a big problem.  Translations could be licensed under
some other license, as long as the requirements in the XMPP license are
also fulfilled, but I don't see that as a problem.

Using the GFDL would be fine by me though.  Just make sure you don't add
any invariant sections, or it won't be considered free from Debian's
point of view.

/Simon

> What would you think?
>
> Nat Sakimura (=nat)
>
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org>
> wrote:
>
>> "Brian E. Lewis" <brian.lewis at cordance.net> writes:
>>
>> > As I understand it, you are only seeking to translate the specs and
>> related
>> > documents.  To my mind, this would be a significant benefit, and the
>> GFDL
>> > would be ideal.  Unfortunately, we did not put that language in the
>> > documents.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > We can either see about getting you permission or amending the documents
>> to
>> > include appropriate GFDL language.
>>
>> Placing the documents under a free license would be useful, so consider
>> this a +1 from me.
>>
>> If the documents are not freely licensed, they cannot be included as
>> documentation in many free software projects.  That would be
>> unfortunate.
>>
>> FYI, compare with the license used by the XMPP Standards Foundation:
>>
>> http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/ipr-policy.shtml#legal
>>
>> That license was chosen after discussing with the community about
>> licensing.
>>
>> /Simon
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > Brian E. Lewis, General Counsel
>> >
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>> > From: legal-bounces at openid.net [mailto:legal-bounces at openid.net] On
>> Behalf
>> > Of Nat Sakimura
>> > Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 3:40 AM
>> > To: legal at openid.net
>> > Subject: [legal] Copyright status of OpenID Specs text itself
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Hello.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I am running a translation project of OpenID Specs and IPR documents.
>> >
>> > To work on these document, I wanted to know what is the copyright status
>> of
>> > those document.
>> >
>> > Are they GFDL or something?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> >
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>> > Nat Sakimura (=nat)
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