Yes indeed. I suppose we need to make them freely available. <div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>What would you think? </div><div><br></div><div>Nat Sakimura (=nat)</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Simon Josefsson <<a href="mailto:simon@josefsson.org">simon@josefsson.org</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">"Brian E. Lewis" <<a href="mailto:brian.lewis@cordance.net">brian.lewis@cordance.net</a>> writes:<br>
<br>
> As I understand it, you are only seeking to translate the specs and related<br>
> documents. To my mind, this would be a significant benefit, and the GFDL<br>
> would be ideal. Unfortunately, we did not put that language in the<br>
> documents.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> We can either see about getting you permission or amending the documents to<br>
> include appropriate GFDL language.<br>
<br>
</div>Placing the documents under a free license would be useful, so consider<br>
this a +1 from me.<br>
<br>
If the documents are not freely licensed, they cannot be included as<br>
documentation in many free software projects. That would be<br>
unfortunate.<br>
<br>
FYI, compare with the license used by the XMPP Standards Foundation:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/ipr-policy.shtml#legal" target="_blank">http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/ipr-policy.shtml#legal</a><br>
<br>
That license was chosen after discussing with the community about<br>
licensing.<br>
<br>
/Simon<br>
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> I am running a translation project of OpenID Specs and IPR documents.<br>
><br>
> To work on these document, I wanted to know what is the copyright status of<br>
> those document.<br>
><br>
> Are they GFDL or something?<br>
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