Re: licensing specs (l20n, in particular)

Gervase Markham wrote:
> Axel Hecht wrote:
>> We had our opinions on the openness of standards with OpenSearch, 
>> which we don't consider to be really open, despite the CC license on 
>> the specification docs.
> 
> What CC license are they using? Who thinks there's something wrong with 
> it, and what do they think is wrong?

Well, an open license only controls what others can do with your stuff, 
it doesn't impact at all what the entity publishing the standard does 
with it.

I'm not sure that a fork-happy license is the right thing to do for 
specifications.

OpenSearch is CC SA 2.5 according to 
http://opensearch.a9.com/license.jsp (with a trademark on OpenSearch). 
Oasis-open.org just does all rights reserved for docbook, and a custom 
license for OpenDocument. W3C seems to be even more restrictive than 
OpenDocument, AFAICT.

Axel