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Subject: [tm-pubsubj] Re: Publishing PSIs
Murray, I was unaware of the IP issues and all of the work that you have already done, otherwise I would not have proposed a region.xtm. You are very, very right. This is really the first matter at hand, and I don't see how we can go forward in the committee without settling it. Best regards, Mary At 04:20 AM 1/4/02 -0800, Murray Altheim wrote: >Let me digress from the technical for a moment to discuss an >important topic that we've to my knowledge not yet brought to >the table. > >The recent message from Mary brought up for me a number of touchy >issues that perhaps she is not aware of, issues that come from some >of the history of the TopicMaps.Org Authoring Group. > >Following on from my development of the language.xtm and country.xtm >topic maps (published as part of the XTM 1.0 Specification) I went >ahead and developed a number of other topic maps I felt might be >useful within the community. The reasons these haven't been published >have to do with both the IP issues of me working at Sun (though this >isn't a real barrier unless I make it one), the lack of a publishing >authority (given that TopicMaps.Org disappeared from the scene), and >finally what I consider the poor record of what I'd consider fair >attribution in our group's history. As Steve Newcomb will attest, my >feelings regarding people getting proper and fair credit for work >accomplished are very strong, as well as people making unauthorized >edits or changes to what is not their intellectual property, changes >made without even asking the author. Sometimes this is a legal matter, >sometimes just a courtesy, but in either case it's good practice. > >I honestly bristled at Mary having modified these files as well as >duplicating work I'd done last year, just as if someone had modified >any work I'd put substantial effort into without asking or beforehand >establishing any relationship to myself or the work. As a number of >people receiving this message are well aware, there was a major scrape >over the removal of four names from both the XTM specification and the >XTM DTD, which has never been remedied. You still don't see Steve and >Michel's name on the XTM Spec, despite an agreement within the >Authoring Group that this should occur. We really don't need to rehash >this history, suffice it to say that the issue is still within the >community, dormant and hot like smouldering leaves. I don't want to >bang on Mary's head about this particularly, but if there's a hot >button for me in this group, she has inadvertently pushed it. > >To put it more bluntly, until there is some understanding between >the parties about what processes and responsibilities are to be >established surrounding the work of this group, I'll not be >releasing *any* of my work to this group. As many could tell you, >this is not due to any lack of generosity on my part. I'm quite willing >to provide these materials to the group once these relationships have >been established. But I don't want the kinds of issues that we've >seen in the past surfacing again. Otherwise I'll be publishing my >work under a very different copyright, one that would not allow >anyone to make any changes to the document without my permission. >I don't imagine this will be necessary, but I want to be very clear >that IP issues must be resolved before we move forward. > >Murray > >........................................................................... >Murray Altheim <mailto:murray.altheim@sun.com> >XML Technology Center, Java and XML Software >Sun Microsystems, Inc., MS MPK17-102, 1601 Willow Rd., Menlo Park, CA 94025 > > Corporations do not have human rights.
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