In that copyright file I see an email (did anyone followup)?

At 12:51 PM 3/22/99 -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:

>Hello. I have the responsibility of assessing the current copyright
>of W3C DTDs accompanying your specifications, on behalf of the Debian
>project <URL:http://www.debian.org/>. Interesting question Adam!
>I would think that the W3C is
>happy to allow derivative DTDs so long as they don't represent
>themselves as W3C standards? If so, would it be possible to get
>clarification about the licensing and rights granted for DTDs?

You are right with respect to our general approach. I suspect that as long
as the DOCTYPE is different from our own, and they attribute it as a work
derived from W3C, we'd give permission. Let me bounce this off a few folks
here, and I'll get you a definitive answer shortly.
On Nov 30, 2015 10:01 PM, <stresswa...@ruggedinbox.com> wrote:

> > [C]an someone reply with a bad source package (or d/copyright file)
> > that we can evaluate in main?
>
> Here is sgml-data's copyright file:
> <
> http://ftp-master.metadata.debian.org/changelogs//main/s/sgml-data/sgml-data_2.0.10_copyright
> >.
>
> Here is the source of sgml-data:
> <
> http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/sgml-data/sgml-data_2.0.10.tar.xz
> >.
> Offending files are in sgml/entities/sgml-iso-entities*/. Also, files
> in xml/entities/xml-iso-entities-8879.1986 are derived from files with
> the same licence.
>
> The files and files derived from them are in other packages as well.
>
>
>

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