On Fri, 15 May 2026 at 02:16, Thilo Molitor <[email protected]> wrote:
> And also what Dave said: an author writing a pre-XEP and then walking away > before it becomes a "proper XEP" would be a problem if the pre-XEP was > just a > wiki page or something else without assigning copyright to the XSF: even > if > someone wanted to work on the pre-XEP and advance it to a "proper XEP", > that > wouldn't be possible unless the original author assigned copyright to the > XSF, > but that may never happen. > > I realised there's a much simpler case where keeping pre-XEPs outside the IPR policy causes horror. If multiple people collaborate on a pre-XEP, then they all have a claim on the copyright. It'd be slightly harder to move the pre-XEP under the IPR policy than to relicense a typical open-source project - you need to contact every author, etc. Dave.
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