OPEN source or OPEN standards does not guarantee freedom from IP issues.
Just because you build something with the intent to make it free from IP
rights does not mean someone else has not already thought of and protected
certain aspects.
The idea that someone is honest enough to expose what they believe may be an
area that is protected, does not mean their intent is to destroy the "open"
concepts, but to enlighten everyone of potential areas of risk.
I am sure that the recent SCO/Novell/IBM/Linux debate has changed the
perspective of a few people regarding the concept of "Open".
>
> Isn't LegalXML about OPEN sources?
> Guess your not from academia ;-)
>
> Kind regards,
> Radboud Winkels
>
> (involved in i.a. MetaLex, an OPEN standard for legal documents,
> www.metalex.nl)
>
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 6/18/2003 1:47:05 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> > writes:
> >
> >
> > > CALL FOR PAPERS
> >
> > Please describe the practices and procedures that are in place for the
> > protection of trade secrets that would need to be included in a workshop
paper in
> > order to properly describe original completed work, work in progress,
and
> > interesting problems or use cases.
> >
> > Can the publication and distribution of a paper be limited to workshop
> > attendees?
> >
> > Respectfully,
> > Gerard Peregrin
> >
>
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> Dept. of Computer Science & Law, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
> email: WWW: http://www.lri.jur.uva.nl/~winkels
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