RE: [dita-sidsc] Using information from other open-standards bodies as OASIS reference materials

["Beims Bob" <bob.beims@freescale.com>]

Mary;

 

Unless I missed the message, I haven't heard from anyone, so for now we'll proceed given your guidelines below.

Regards,
Bob

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From: Mary McRae [mailto:marypmcrae@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Mary McRae
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 9:50 PM
To: Beims Bob; 'Don Day (IBM)'
Cc: 'Semiconductor Information Design Subcommittee'
Subject: RE: [dita-sidsc] Using information from other open-standards bodies as OASIS reference materials

Hi Bob,

 

  Did you get an answer from Jamie? I don’t think there’s any problem as long as:

1)      The information is publicly available, and

2)      You don’t actually copy any of the information into your documents (other than cite as a reference).

 

Let me know if you haven’t gotten an official answer.

 

Regards,

 

Mary

 

From: Beims Bob [mailto:bob.beims@freescale.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:28 AM
To: Mary McRae (OASIS); Don Day (IBM)
Cc: Semiconductor Information Design Subcommittee
Subject: [dita-sidsc] Using information from other open-standards bodies as OASIS reference materials

 

Mary, Don;

The DITA TC SIDSC is planning on utilizing public information from two other standards bodies, spiritconsortium.org and opencores.org, as reference material to help us refine our data models for specialization. You can see links to some of their material posted on our wiki:

http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/Semiconductor/UseCases/RegisterElements

We will not be using their information in any work products of the subcommittee, their information will be used solely to validate the completeness and correctness of the SIDSC work.

Are there legal issues we need to be careful about in this respect?

Regards,
Bob