Re: [xslt-conformance] Spreading the Work

[Eduardo Gutentag <eduardo.gutentag@sun.com>]

Lofton,

from a procedural point of view, the product of OASIS TCs should carry a copyright
that allows for "stealing" (their words ;-)
(see http://oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.shtml)
as long as the copyright and OASIS's name are preserved.

I don't see that copyright notice in what is visible through the XSLT's home
page at OASIS (under the one you mentioned, "5. Documents") so I'm not sure
what the status is in this case.

Ken, you might want to consult with Karl as to what is appropriate in this
case, or you might consider slapping the right copyright notice on the available
product of the TC

Eduardo

Lofton Henderson wrote:
> 
> Ken et al,
> 
> Some background and a question...
> 
> Background.
> 
> Lest you or some other TC members start to get questions about the TC work
> from unexpected directions, I should let you know that I have been
> evangelizing.  Well, not exactly ... but wearing my W3C QA hat, I have been
> both working towards a conformance framework "primer" document, and
> advising at least one group about how to get started on its test suite project.
> 
> In the latter category is UAAG.  In both cases, I consider our genericized
> XSLT processes and framework to be one of a very few good approaches --
> comprehensive, end-to-end, and reasonably automatable -- that can be looked
> at and even picked up (in parts or in whole) by others.
> 
> Question.
> 
> The question was asked, "can we borrow from the XSLT work?"  My opinion
> was, "not a problem".  This seems implied by section 2.1 on our home page
> (which btw has a dead link on "completed products").
> 
> But I said that I'd verify that the XSLT TC has no problems with it.  I
> have indicated that a first "pilot" public release is pending (I hope this
> was also okay), aimed at progressing toward the assembly of the XSLT suite.
> 
> Btw, one thing that is particularly appealing to UAAG is our handling of
> discretion.  UAAG 1.0 (CR draft) has a conformance space where optionality
> or discretion is pervasive, for how UAs may meet
> checkpoints/guidelines.  Therefore, they were pretty keen on the concept of
> per-UA customizable suites, to match the particular accessability solutions
> chosen by the individual UAs.
> 
> -Lofton.
> 
> Bit of exchange with Ian, W3C team contact for UAAG...
> 
> >Sender: ian@w3.org
> >Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 16:12:18 -0400
> >From: "Ian B. Jacobs" <ij@w3.org>
> >Organization: W3C
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> >To: Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>
> >Subject: Re: minutes of 22-23 f2f meeting
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> >
> >Lofton Henderson wrote:
> > >
> > > [...] I intend to email the TC and inform them of my ad-hoc
> > > speaking on the TC work.  I'll invite any comments about others borrowing
> > > the work. -LH.
> >
> >Tell them we intend to steal heavily from them. ;)
> >
> >  _ Ian
> >
> >--
> >Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org)   http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs
> >Tel:                     +1 718 260-9447
> 
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