Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Voluntary Public Domain declarations now enabled on the wiki

2007-07-20 Thread Tantek Çelik
On 7/20/07 4:35 PM, "Andy Mabbett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I applaud him for doing so; but, at the time of writing, copyright in > both hCalendar and hCard is still claimed, in part, by "Technorati, > Inc.", by virtue of their being one of the three listed authors, Technorati is not listed a

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Voluntary Public Domain declarations now enabled on the wiki

2007-07-20 Thread Ernest Prabhakar
Hi Andy, On Jul 20, 2007, at 4:40 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: Please consider adding "retroactively" or "all past, present and future contributions" to the text. I think any attempt to change the terms of a statement whereby people have released some of their rights, after they have done so,

[uf-discuss] Re: Voluntary Public Domain declarations now enabled on the wiki

2007-07-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Manu Sporny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes The wording of the current template isn't explicit about past contributions. The statement could be interpreted as "all future contributions" since most legal statements are not retroactive unless explicitly stated. I do

[uf-discuss] Re: Voluntary Public Domain declarations now enabled on the wiki

2007-07-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rohit Khare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >As soon as I first edited the wiki page to describe this strategy, >Andy reached out to me to inquire how the public-domain release >interacted with the original 2004 copyright statement. I didn't "inquire" about anything; I

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Voluntary Public Domain declarations now enabled on the wiki

2007-07-20 Thread Manu Sporny
Rohit Khare wrote: > Migrating to a new, clearer copyright regime will not happen overnight > and must be done clearly and cleanly -- but it begins, I submit, by > offering to cooperate in the construction of a new regime. Please > consider joining in by adding the release to you user profiles tod

[uf-discuss] Re: Voluntary Public Domain declarations now enabled on the wiki

2007-07-20 Thread Rohit Khare
Well, it's been two days since this thread began, and I wanted to echo back what I've heard from the discussion. [Fair warning, I've been flying quite a bit, and will be for the next week, so I may fall a bit out-of-date...] As soon as I first edited the wiki page to describe this strategy,

[uf-discuss] Search Engines and Microformats

2007-07-20 Thread Aarron Walter
I've been searching for any information about the degree to which search engines currently take advantage of Microformats for indexing content. Can anyone tell me: • When crawling pages, do Google, Yahoo!, or MSN recognize hCard, hCalendar, or other Microformats, and if so, do they do anyth

Re: [uf-discuss] UTC Datetime formats & Google calendar

2007-07-20 Thread Mike Kaply
Operator 0.8 has fixes related to timezones, etc. so these problems should go away. the beta is here: http://www.kaply.com/weblog/2007/07/03/operator-08b-is-available/ Thanks! Mike Kaply On 7/19/07, Rebecca Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks. I'm using Operator 0.7, Firefox 2.0.0.5 / Win.

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats thesis

2007-07-20 Thread Jesse Rodgers
Interesting. I was just outlining a similar paper for my msc... If an English translation becomes available of yours I would very much like to see it. Anyone else have an academic paper to share? Jesse On 7/20/07, Florian Beer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, in case someone is interested... I

[uf-discuss] Microformats thesis

2007-07-20 Thread Florian Beer
Hi, in case someone is interested... I recently finished my studies and graduated as "Diplomingenieur (FH) für technisch-wissenschaftliche Berufe" in Autria. As my thesis I wrote a paper on the semantic web an Microformats. Unfortunately it's in german, but I thought I'd post it here anyway