Hi, Let me comment as the apparent current maintainer of the sgml-data packahge.
On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 08:18:06AM -0500, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > In that copyright file I see an email (did anyone followup)? > > At 12:51 PM 3/22/99 -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Adam was the original maintaner. > >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. > > On Nov 30, 2015 10:01 PM, <stresswa...@ruggedinbox.com> wrote: > > > [C]an someone reply with a bad source package (or d/copyright file) > > that we can evaluate in main? > > Here is sgml-data's copyright file: > <http://ftp-master.metadata.debian.org/changelogs//main/s/sgml-data/ > sgml-data_2.0.10_copyright>. > > Here is the source of sgml-data: > <http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/sgml-data/ > sgml-data_2.0.10.tar.xz>. > Offending files are in sgml/entities/sgml-iso-entities*/. Also, files > in xml/entities/xml-iso-entities-8879.1986 are derived from files with > the same licence. > > The files and files derived from them are in other packages as well. I know: We had netscape in main. (Now, no more) We had afio in main (Recently it is in non-free) We have moved many RFC and some of the GNU info to non-free. We still have sgml-data in main. I kind of remember some one told me there is a FREE alternative package. Untill we find out if code in question is copyrightable and there is good aternmative path, we need to be careful. Regards, Osamu
