Re: [jats-list] Re: future of Preview XSLT

["Beck, Jeff (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [E]" <beck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kevin,

The Preview Stylesheets will contain the following notice.

Jeff

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On 10/5/12 2:14 PM, "Kevin Hawkins" <kevin.s.hawkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Good news indeed.
>
>To be less elliptical about my concerns about copyright that I mentioned
>in a previous message, I'm concerned about the copyright status of
>Preview XSLT.  While http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/tools/tools.html says "All
>of the tools described on this page are in the public domain", I'm not
>so sure that is technically true.  First of all, XSLT code, like other
>software code, receives copyright protection in the US.  If the tools
>were created by US government employees during the course of their work,
>then they would be in the public domain the US.  But if they were
>created by a contractor for a US government agency, then the contractor
>owns the copyright.  It's not clear under US copyright law that anyone
>can renounce their copyright, despite Creative Commons offering a "deed"
>to that effect.
>
>So, in short, I would prefer if a statement about who produced these (a
>federal agency or someone else) and, if someone else, if a license were
>attached to each of these tools explaining what may be done with them.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Kevin
>
>On 10/5/2012 12:29 PM, Wendell Piez wrote:
>> Dear Jeff,
>>
>> This is excellent news about your plans to release the Preview
>> stylesheets on Github.
>>
>> Kevin raised the interesting question of whether there are any IP
>> restrictions (due to explicit or implicit copyrights to the work) that
>> would hinder or prevent forking and then distributing modifications.
>> Can you comment on that?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Wendell