Subj : Out of the woodwork
To   : mark lewis
From : Alexey Vissarionov
Date : Wed Nov 07 2018 10:22 pm

Good ${greeting_time}, mark!

07 Nov 2018 12:19:50, you wrote to Bj”rn Felten:

 BF>> The above clause surely makes it possible to update even Randy's
 BF>> outdated documents to present standard.
 ml> the above was written by the 2nd incarnation of the FTSC as an effort
 ml> to clarify things and avoid problems like we have with FTS-1... we
 ml> cannot update or alter FTS-1 without the author's express permission

You possibly can't (you live in US and US legislation applies to you), but 
others can (personally I can even use portions of old text without breaking 
Russian laws).

 ml> and he has specifically and *emphatically* not given that
 ml> permission...

If you really care of that, you may abstain of participating in the rewrite 
(nobody would blame you for that).

Or... possibly we'd appreciate help from anonymous contributors :-)

 ml> apparently the document name falls under his copyright...

The very word "copyright" is meaningless outside the US and, possibly, some 
other countries with similar legislation.

 ml> so a new document has to be written with a different title

Not really necessary.


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