RE: MS copyright language in Sept

[Bob Glushko <Bob.glushko@commerceone.com>]

On September 10 Commerce One (Arofan Greory and I) submitted an invoice
schema to the Biztalk repository and at that time the submission procedure
included this text in each sample file:

"Copyright Microsoft and put your company name here"

This was so blatant an attempt to proprietize the contents of the repository
we joked about it. It basically said that a submitter could only use its own
submissions without Microsoft's permission.

If this is gone in the current procedure, great, it means we shamed them out
of it. But I am 100% certain it was there in September.


bob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terry Allen [mailto:tallen@sonic.net]
> Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 7:19 AM
> To: xmlorg@oasis-open.org
> Subject: MS copyright language in Sept
> 
> 
> I checked the files I copied from the biztalk site in Sept (when
> it was publicly viewable), and can't find any language about
> copyright except that MS grants a license to use the BT Framework
> tags under any applicable MS copyrights, and that as a condition of
> implmenting the framework users agree not to press patent claims
> against MS.
> 
> So I'm not sure where I heard that submissions to BT would share
> copyright with MS - Bob Glushko, do you recall?
> 
> regards, Terry
>