On 30/06/14 13:52, musicdenotation@gmail.com wrote:

> John Cowan claimed that all contributors have agreed to license the
> reports for unrestricted use and modification. Where is the proof?
> (Email threads for example)

I'm intrigued: Why do you care?

But, as it happens, I see the fact that everyone contributed to a
document that says "We intend this report to belong to the entire Scheme
community, and so we grant permission to copy it in whole or in part
without fee", at no point complained that we had not realised anything
we contributed would end up therein when it was submitted for public
review, voted to accept it, etc, as counting as agreement to license the
reports for unrestricted use and modification.

If you are, or work for, a legal entity that wants stronger assurance of
license than that, then you're welcome to not unrestrictedly use and
modify it; feel free to use your basic legal rights to read the thing
and use the concepts therein without copying the text, if you're worried
one of the contributors will suddenly leap up and sue you for copyright
infringement :-)

If you need specific legal ass-covering for something you really really
want to do, then you can also try and email all the listed contributors
asking them for their own approval for your specific (or general) use
case; but we never felt it worth doing so ourselves.

ABS

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Alaric Snell-Pym
http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/

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