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  • From: "Luis Villa" <luis AT tieguy.org>
  • To: "Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts" <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Is BY-ND a good choice for an Internet XML-based protocol specification?
  • Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:24:41 -0500

On 1/24/07, Lucas Gonze <lucas.gonze AT gmail.com> wrote:
In any event, thanks to James Grimmelmann for the legal expertise.
I'm happy to learn that things are working, even if it is by accident.
:) (Though I am sorry that the ND clause is not going to help with
interoperability).

FWIW, Lucas, the route most large free-ish projects seem to be going
is to use TM for interoperability protection- abuse the spec all you
want, but if your product doesn't conform, you can't it _______(tm)-
compliant.

Doing this really well requires creating a conformance test, and it
rankles certain free software people (including myself.) But as far as
I can see it seems like the least of the various evils.

I'm not sure the approach has ever been tested, but it seems sound
given the information-quality goals of trademark law.

Luis




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