Subj : Out of the woodwork
To : mark lewis
From : Alexey Vissarionov
Date : Wed Nov 07 2018 10:22 pm
Good ${greeting_time}, mark!
07 Nov 2018 12:19:50, you wrote to Bj�rn Felten:
BF>> The above clause surely makes it possible to update even Randy's
BF>> outdated documents to present standard.
ml> the above was written by the 2nd incarnation of the FTSC as an effort
ml> to clarify things and avoid problems like we have with FTS-1... we
ml> cannot update or alter FTS-1 without the author's express permission
You possibly can't (you live in US and US legislation applies to you), but
others can (personally I can even use portions of old text without breaking
Russian laws).
ml> and he has specifically and *emphatically* not given that
ml> permission...
If you really care of that, you may abstain of participating in the rewrite
(nobody would blame you for that).
Or... possibly we'd appreciate help from anonymous contributors :-)
ml> apparently the document name falls under his copyright...
The very word "copyright" is meaningless outside the US and, possibly, some
other countries with similar legislation.
ml> so a new document has to be written with a different title
Not really necessary.
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