[CLIM II][copyright]

Scott McKay swmckay at gmail.com
Wed Nov 28 15:17:31 UTC 2018


Honestly, I think you can perfectly reasonably just "clone", modify and
distribute at will.
Nobody will enforce any copyright on it; I certainly won't.

--S


On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 6:10 AM Daniel Kochmański <daniel at turtleware.eu>
wrote:

> Dear Mr. McKay,
>
> my name is Daniel Kochmański and I'm the current maintainer of McCLIM.
> We have a recurring dispute about "CLIM II Specification" which is
> distributed with the library about its licensing. I know you were kind
> enough to agree for us to use it, however we are not sure if we are
> allowed to modify it (with appropriate annotation about changes) and
> incorporate parts of it in other documents.
>
> I'm writing to you with these questions:
>
> - What is the document legal status? Who is the copyright owner and
>   what license does it have?
>
> - Are we allowed to redistribute it (like we do like now) with the
>   source code of McCLIM?
>
> - Are we allowed to modify the document and incorporate parts of it in
>   other documents (i.e in a manual)?
>
> - Are we allowed to create a derivative work based on it to clarify or
>   some sections or even extend it?
>
> Thank you for your time taken to answer these questions. I'm adding
> mcclim-devel mailing list to CC, for all other community members to see
> questions (and hopefully, the answer).
>
> Best regards,
> Daniel Kochmański
>
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