[georss] Creative Commons

[Carl Reed OGC Account]

Mikel -

Atom is an internet standard http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4287.txt and 
therefore is under IETF copyright. Atom Enabled is about tools and services. 
So, in the case of the Atom spec, copyright and IPR is vested with the IETF. 
AtomEnabled.org works under "Terms of Service" and is more focused on issues 
of liability and infringement and not on Atom copyright per-se. This is a 
very workable model: The copyright and IPR for a specification or standard 
are vested in some organization (usually a standards organization). The 
copyright allows anyone at anytime to develop implementations of that 
standard in a totally unrestricted way. Another example of this model is 
WS-I. WS-I is a consortium defining best practices and so forth for existing 
web services standards developed in another standards organization, such as 
OASIS or the W3C.

In all cases, the folks doing development work using a given spec or 
standard can feed enhancement/change requests into the organization 
maintaining that spec or standard.

Cheers

Carl

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mikel Maron" <mikel_maron at yahoo.com>
To: "Josh at oklieb" <josh at oklieb.net>; <georss at lists.eogeo.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: [georss] Creative Commons


>
>> 1) Who is it that holds the copyright and issues the CC license to
>> the material on the georss.org site? Is an informal group sufficient
>> or would it be better for a legal entity to hold the copyright for
>> clarity and stability.
>
> Would be interest to consult the discussion of other similar scale 
> projects. For instance, what led Atom contributors to form AtomEnabled 
> Alliance? Are there other projects that didn't go the route of a formal 
> copyright holder? What are the advantages/disadvantages? Are there any 
> currently existing organizations that could hold the copyright, if 
> necessary?
>
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>> We just need to reconcile any inconsistencies between these two aims
>> and get on with some real work (uh, I dunno, creating slide
>> presentations or maybe even coding).
>
> Oh yea! ;)
>
> Totally, I wouldn't want to get bogged down in the formalization process.
>
> -Mikel
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