In that copyright file I see an email (did anyone followup)?
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.
> [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.