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12:17:06
bike
"They didnt really think about it until it was brought up" sounds pretty normal for engineers
12:18:07
bike
ANSI probably isn't going to sue anyone, practically speaking, given that as beach mentioned they don't even care enough about the CL standard to keep the original sources
15:05:14
nij-
splittist The point is that we'd like to stick to a standard that has been used for years.
15:05:48
nij-
So hopefully, the transition from dpANS3 to whatever successor is well-documented and well-spreaded to people.
15:06:51
nij-
How about doing this anomonously? Like flying to a non US territory, publish the parsed result with copyleft without trace into the internet?
15:10:50
bike
copyleft is a legal concept. if you publish something illegally and give it a copyleft license, if it actually came up in court the judge would just go well this supposed copyright is invalid
15:12:07
bike
please don't try to loophole your way through legal systems. there's a reason lawyers exist
15:12:49
bike
the more pressing issue for a standard is the social problem of getting everybody on board with it. comparatively i don't think the legal stuff is a big deal since ANSI probably doesn't care
15:13:43
splittist
nij-: copyleft is a red herring. As long as no-one is claiming others' work as their own or trying to make money from the standard, the chances of any legal action from disseminating a 'new'/'reworded' version of dpANS are negligible. (But IANYL.)
15:21:24
nij-
I see. I just find this unsettling. But maybe you all are right. Without a law professional we can't go far anyway. And there's more pressing issues now indeed.