Re: Fw: Re: DAML+OIL submission to W3C (copyright/patent)

From: Deborah McGuinness (dlm@ksl.stanford.edu)
Date: 10/18/01


on the [party] below - does that mean that I sign it as an individual?
 AS WELL AS asking someone at stanford to sign it as "member company"?

thx,
d

"Peter F. Patel-Schneider" wrote:

> From: Jim Hendler <james.hendler@verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: Fw: Re: DAML+OIL submission to W3C (copyright/patent)
> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 09:12:51 -0400
>
> > >
> > >
> > >(2) we need more explicit copyright license terms.
> > >
> > >I suggest that you ammend the submission request
> > >to include the following text, substituting
> > >each of the authors for [party]:
> > >
> > >   [party] hereby grants to the W3C, a perpetual,
> > >   nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide right and license under any
> > >   [party] copyrights in this contribution to copy, publish and
> > >   distribute the contribution, as well as a right and license of the
> > >   same scope to any derivative works prepared by the W3C and based on,
> > >   or incorporating all or part of the contribution. [Member Company]
> > >   further agrees that any derivative works of this contribution prepared
> > >   by the W3C shall be solely owned by the W3C.
> >
> > How about:
> >
> > [party} hereby grants to all organizations and entities a perpetual,
> > royalty-free...  ?
> >
> > i.e. let's just put the frigging thing in public domain -- can W3C handle
> that?
>
> No idea.
>
> peter

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