From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Sun Aug 21 2005 - 18:05:07 CDT
From: "Michael Everson" <everson@evertype.com>
> Be that as it may, the people hosting my document on their site didn't ask
> my permission, or the permission of the other authors. Such documents go
> out of date. I have written to the site and told them that they may point
> to http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/n2xxx-cyrillic.pdf if
> they wish.
Conclusion: insert in your PDF a leading or trailing page that explains its
status, your copyright notice, its official location (URL) on your web site,
and a comment that says that the document may be uppdated over time, and
that for further checks, one could consult a link to get the newest version,
or a page explaining the new status of the document (if it's now deprecated
or replaced by another standard)
Just giving its release date and its contributors, and the non-explicit
status "Expert Contribution" to the document is not enough.
Given that the document also is not assigned an official document number for
JTC WG2 (is says N25xx), it should also have an explicit date of peremption
(no more than 6 months for such document), so that every one will know,
without even having to consult the source site, that the document is no more
valid and does not represent your current opinion or the opinion of the
other contributors.
Note that the document does not explicitly says it is YOURS. It just says
that YOU were involded, among others, as a SOURCE.
I understand that you can't put exclusive copyrights to this document, but
you can give to WG2 a separate agreement allowing WG2 to make use of the
document for their own needs (I think this could be also a small paragraph
in the document header). But from what I read in the PDF, there's no
copyright notice, so don't blame others if they thought they were allowed to
reproduce it (whom should have they asked the permission to???)
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