> Is it necessary that we're allowed to change the content of documents in
> main? I would like to package the standard documents from W3, but they
> don't allow to change the content. And this makes sense, because this
> documents are standards.
Can you point me to the license statement? I will take it up with the
W3 chair.
No, it does not make sense. They should credit us with the intelligence
to not make a change in their standard, or charge us with fraud if we make
deliberate misrepresentations of their standard.
They should give us the freedom to make changes in formatting, spelling,
language translation, and presentation. They should give us the freedom
to maintain the documents once they lose interest in them.
They could require us to post a message with the documents that these are
not the canonical versions, giving the source of the canonical copies.
That's really as much as they should do. Free software includes the freedom
to maintain it.
Thanks
Bruce
