Searching for the OP's email address with Google, it looks like he has asked about the copyright licensing terms for the language specs of: R7RS, Erlang, Perl 6, PHP, Clojure, Dart, Tcl, and possibly more. In a Dart thread, when asked to explain his concern, he said:
"My concern is that ECMA may prevent you from distributing modified versions of the specification." Assuming good faith, my best guess is that he's making a library of language specs with his personal annotations and intending to publish it eventually, or something of that nature. --John Boyle *Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.* --Knuth On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 6:30 AM, Aaron W. Hsu <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2014-06-30 at 14:07 +0100, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: > > But, as it happens, I see the fact that everyone contributed to a > > document that says "We intend this report to belong to the entire > > Scheme > > community, and so we grant permission to copy it in whole or in part > > without fee", at no point complained that we had not realised anything > > we contributed would end up therein when it was submitted for public > > review, voted to accept it, etc, as counting as agreement to license > > the > > reports for unrestricted use and modification. > > I'm also wondering about this term "unrestricted use" and previous > comments about public domain. The terms of the permission I think would > make it abundantly safe to take the document, or any smaller portion of > it, modify or change it, and then distribute it, with appropriate > copyright notifications concerning the source of the text. Indeed, this > is how it was done for R7RS. > > What seems more suspicious, though I don't think legally problematic > from the above wide permission, is to copy the document, and then claim > copyright over it, and somehow incorporate it as a part of a significant > commercial endeavor, without citing or referencing the original work and > trying to pass the copy as your own work. > > Thus, I'm quite curious why the OP is using the particular language of > "public domain" and "unrestricted" here in seeming opposition to what > already exists in the document. Some clarification would help. :-) > > -- > Aaron W. Hsu | [email protected] | http://www.sacrideo.us > Please support my work: https://www.gittip.com/arcfide/ > > לֵ֤ב חֲכָמִים֙ בְּבֵ֣ית אֵ֔בֶל וְלֵ֥ב כְּסִילִ֖ים בְּבֵ֥ית שִׂמְחָֽה׃ > > > _______________________________________________ > Scheme-reports mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports > >
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