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Subject: RE: [office] [OASIS Issue Tracker] Commented: (OFFICE-2082) [Zip] reference is neither public nor authoritative
Fortunately, I had tucked-away a copy of appnote-970311-iz.zip (and Michael Stahl tracked down a reliable reference on the info-zip.org site). The license issues are bothersome, I admit. This is a particular concern for the Info-Zip versions since they are clearly derivative works of the PKWARE versions and their simply slapping their own license on it (for whatever versions of "they") doesn't apply to the non-original content. I don't want to even think about IPR issues that are more complex than mere copyright and determination of the copyrightable subject matter in this particular instance. - Dennis PS: For on-line materials that I might want to cite, I do keep archive (i.e., persistent cache) copies. (For work on a dissertation of any significance, that is a requirement.) However, I also embargo them and make sure that they are not reachable over the internet via any links in my material. See, e.g., <http://nfoworks.org/notes/2008/03/n080301-cache/default.htm> and notice there is no download for items n080301c4, n080301d3, n080301d6, and others. -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Durusau [mailto:patrick@durusau.net] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200910/msg00112.html Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 10:31 To: robert_weir@us.ibm.com Cc: dennis.hamilton@acm.org; 'ODF TC List' Subject: Re: [office] [OASIS Issue Tracker] Commented: (OFFICE-2082) [Zip] reference is neither public nor authoritative Rob, [ ... ] Err, do you mean annex N in the JTC 1 Directives? I don't remember seeing a archive copy provision. May well be there and I overlooked it. > It might be a good practice for us as well, to keep an archived copy of > all all non-ISO, non-OASIS, non-W3C, non-IETF referenced specifications. > > Well, in a word, no. ;-) Recall that different organizations for reasons that seem best to them have copyright statements that suit their institutional purposes. Some of them even restrict availability of standards to paying members. So, a general rule of archiving would run afoul of such provisions fairly quickly. I don't disagree with your idea in principal and as a practical matter I keep local copies of everything that I cite with any regularity. But keeping a public archive of *copyrighted* materials that were produced by others is a "different kettle of fish." [ ... ]
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