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- At 12:51 PM 3/22/99 -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
- >Hello. I have the responsibility of assessing the current copyright
- >of W3C DTDs accompanying your specifications, on behalf of the Debian
- >project <URL:http://www.debian.org/>.
-
- Interesting question Adam!
-
- >I would think that the W3C is
- >happy to allow derivative DTDs so long as they don't represent
- >themselves as W3C standards? If so, would it be possible to get
- >clarification about the licensing and rights granted for DTDs?
-
- You are right with respect to our general approach. I suspect that as long
- as the DOCTYPE is different from our own, and they attribute it as a work
- derived from W3C, we'd give permission. Let me bounce this off a few folks
- here, and I'll get you a definitive answer shortly.
-
-
- A further note on the XHTML materials:
-
- This working draft may be updated, replaced or rendered obsolete by other W3C
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-
- * XML ISO Characters
-
- The XML version of the ISO 8879 entities is from OASIS's XML Character
- entities. It may be downloaded from
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-
- <!-- Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Organization for the Advancement of Structured
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-
-
- * XML and Japanese Declarations
-
- xml.dcl and japan.dcl is from the OpenJade project,
- <http://peano.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de/jade-cvs/>, which
- carries this copyright notice:
-
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- * XML Catalog
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