From: Dan Connolly (connolly@w3.org)
Date: 10/20/01
Jim Hendler wrote: > > Dan- > Does this By "this" I assume you mean |I'm not sure I could release my contribution to the public |domain; it's not my personal property; it belongs |to MIT (or maybe to DARPA; I'm not sure). -- DanC, Thu, 18 Oct 2001 20:38:08 -0500 > mean W3C people cannot participate in any open source > efforts?? No. Open source and public domain are very different. Public domain means releasing copyright altogether. In open source development, contributors retain their copyright, but they grant a very liberal license. > I propose we simply consider DAML+OIL as if it was open > source. What do you mean by that, exactly? i.e. in legal terms? Have you reviewed the legal terms that I suggested[1]? How are they different from considering "DAML+OIL as if it was open source"? That legal text took a long time to get. Please just use it. > I don't see what IP we want to claim -- any tools developed > by any of us remain our own. The language is something I don't see > any of us owning/licensing. The text of the specification of the language is something that we own copyrights in, unless/until we sign them away. [I think. IANAL] > Officially, by the way, DARPA's policy is to leave our PIs owning > their own IP, govt gets a perpetual, royalty free license (It's in > the contract your organization signed when they accepted the money). Hmm... I wonder how I can get a look at that. > Patents and etc. go back to your organization if requested, this is > Federal law as I recall. > In this case, I'm simply wondering what IP anyone thinks they want > to keep in this thing -- if we were talking about the tool kit or > etc, it would be different. Frankly, I'm not qualified to "think" about this IP stuff. If the text I gave is acceptable, please accept it. If it's not, this could take much, much longer. > -JH [1] hey! what happened to our archive? how come it's not in there? http://www.daml.org/listarchive/joint-committee/ anyway, it's in peter's message of Wed, 17 Oct 2001 16:16:56 -0400. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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