Re: draft-bradner-rfc-extracts-00.txt

--On fredag, februar 11, 2005 02:30:39 +0100 Simon Josefsson 
<jas@extundo.com> wrote:

> Re 3: The fact that W3C, ITU etc behave similar to IETF is not a
> convincing argument to me.  The Unicode Consortium permit modified
> versions of their standards to be published (again, kudos to them!),
> see <http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html>.

factoid.... the Unicode website you point to says:

> Certain documents and files on this website contain a legend indicating
> that "Modification is permitted." Any person is hereby authorized,
> without fee, to modify such documents and files to create derivative
> works conforming to the Unicode® Standard, subject to Terms and
> Conditions herein.

Note that you can't modify the documents for anything BUT creating 
derivative works conforming to the Unicode Standard - and there are 
documents (such as this one) that you can't create modified versions of.

(I assume that this quote is within the boundaries of acceptable quotation 
for commentary, although I haven't checked with my lawyer on the point...)

and later in the same document, for the "Unicode Database" files:

> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
> copy of the Unicode data files and associated documentation (the "Data
> Files") or Unicode software and associated documentation (the "Software")
> to deal in the Data Files or Software without restriction, including
> without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
> distribute, and/or sell copies of the Data Files or Software, and to
> permit persons to whom the Data Files or Software are furnished to do so,
> provided that (a) the above copyright notice(s) and this permission
> notice appear with all copies of the Data Files or Software, (b) both the
> above copyright notice(s) and this permission notice appear in associated
> documentation, and (c) there is clear notice in each modified Data File
> or in the Software as well as in the documentation associated with the
> Data File(s) or Software that the data or software has been modified.

All that said, I think the Unicode rules seem reasonable :-)

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