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Yes. Fortunately most programs include the source URL when printing a document. You should also inform the class of the document's copyright notice.


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Yes, provided that you clearly represent the status of the document and that the canonical version of the document can only be found on the W3C site. You should feel free to reference this FAQ or our other legal notices to make this representation clear.


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See the Mirroring and Caching Policy.


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Yes, provided that you comply with the all of the following requirements:

  1. Inform the W3C of your plan to translate our content and inform us of when you've completed and published the translation. Such notice should be sent in English to w3c-translators@w3.org [public archive] and -- if provided -- the comments email list associated with that document.
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    3. that the translated document may contain errors from the translation.

    This disclosure should be made in a header and/or footer that wraps the translated W3C specification. No semantic changes should be made to any part of the W3C document including the STATUS, contributors, or appendices. If comments or annotations are absolutely necessary within the content of the specification, those annotations must be clearly represented as such. (example)

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    2. that the W3C may rescind your right to publish or distribute the derivative work if the W3C finds that it leads to confusion regarding the original document's status or integrity.

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No, the only official version of a W3C document is the english language version at the W3C site.


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Annotations (including the reogranization and excerptation of copyrighted material) are covered by a policy much like the translation policy. Annotation systems which do not require the source document to be copied or changed in anyway by the annotator are not covered by this answer unless the display resulting from their implementation is likely to lead to misrepresentations or confusion regarding the technical content and STATUS of a W3C document. You may make a copy of our specification and annotate it only if you comply with the following requirements:

  1. Inform the W3C of your plan to annotate our content and inform us of when you've completed and published the annotation. Such notice should be sent in English to site-policy@w3.org and -- if provided -- the comments email list associated with that document.
  2. Prominently disclose that the resulting display or document is an annotation and the W3C is not responsible for any content not found at the original URL and that any annotations are non-normative.
  3. This disclosure should be made in a header and/or footer that wraps the annotated W3C specification. No semantic changes should be made to any part of the W3C document including the STATUS, contributors, or appendices. If comments or annotations are absolutely necessary within the content of the specification, those annotations must be clearly represented as such. (example)
  4. Agree:
    1. to the redistribution terms of the W3C document copyright notice. Consequently, your work may be republished by the W3C or other entities if it is done in compliance with the notice's terms.
    2. that the W3C may rescind your right to publish or distribute the derivative work if the W3C finds that it leads to confusion regarding the original document's status or integrity.

[added 19990225, tweaked 20000808 to clarify annotations include the creation of derivitate works that reoganize and excerpt materials in a way that exceeds the bounds of fair use.]


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The creation of a reformatted work is a derivitive work, something we do not generically permit in our document copyright license. However (like translations) we do want our specifications to be as widely available as possible, though we must ensure that readers of derivitive works understand the status of the derived work, its relation to the W3C, and how to get the original.

We grant specific permission to reformat a document if the requester complies with the all of the following requirements:

  1. Inform the W3C of your plan to reformat our content and inform us of when you've completed and published it. Such notice should be sent in English to site-policy@w3.org and -- if provided -- the comments email list associated with that document.
  2. No semantic changes should be made to any part of the W3C document including the STATUS, contributors, or appendices.
  3. If you provide any information or context about the reformatted version you must prominently disclose the following 3 items:
    1. the original URL, the status of the document, and its original copyright notice.
    2. that the normative version of the specification is the original version found at the W3C site.
    3. that the reformatted document may contain formatting or hypertextual errors.
  4. Agree:
    1. to the redistribution terms of the W3C document copyright notice. Consequently, your version may be republished by the W3C or other entities if it is done in compliance with the notice's terms.
    2. that the W3C may rescind your right to publish or distribute the derivative work if the W3C finds that it leads to confusion regarding the original document's status or integrity.

 [added 20000315]


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[19990323$B$KDI2C(B]

$B!!(B======================================================================
$B!!(B[$BLuRDF: Resource Description Framework$B!O!N(B$BK]LuHG!!(Bby Yusuke Koizumi$B!O(B
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Schemas (and DTDs) are frequently part of our specifications and seemingly fall under the document copyright terms. However, as long as you do not use the same formal namespace or public identifier to identify that modified W3C schema/DTD (which might confuse applications), you may treat the schema/DTD under the software terms. This means that you are permitted to make a derivative or modified W3C schema/DTD, but even under the software terms you are obligated to include/retain the W3C copyright notice. We further appreciate a couple sentences regarding who made the modifications, when, and what changes were made in the original DTD -- a common software documentation practice.

We expect to revisit this topic as metadata schemas become and increasingly important part of W3C specifications and as the metadata schema definition capabilities of XML and RDF advance.

[added 19990323]


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As documented, W3C software can be modified and redistributed provided that you comply with the terms of the Software and Document Notice. Basically that means you must: include a link to its source on the W3C site, the copyright statement (the full notice for reference if possible)  and other relevant terms and conditions; and that you respect the trademarks of its originator. In a few instances, software distributed by the W3C is provided by another entity under specific terms and conditions which must be followed. Please review any notices or disclosures that accompany the software itself.


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Yes, and you can charge for it, given the above requirements are met.


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Yes, we want people to experiment with and improve our software. It can even be used in commercial software. If you make changes for the better, we encourage you to contact its authors. You may not make changes and continue to call it by a trademarked term or misrepresent the origin, capabilities, or liabilities associated with its use. You may make valid assertions, such that it is based on Amaya code, or that it is compliant with a Recommended Specification of the W3C.


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If you use a library (like libwww) and include it in the source code, or compile/link to it, you must also include the copyright license. However, if you merely provide a compile option you are not obligated to include our license. Any subsequent party that links or includes against the library is obligated to include the license. (If you include the option, you might do your users a favor by pointing to it yourself.) To restate our policy: it is the responsibility of the person who causes our software to be included in subsequent distributions (either in source, object, or executable code) to abide by our terms.


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If you wish to contribute code via CVS to one of the W3C Open Source Software, please complete and return the patches form. Also, send an email to the project/CVS-repository owner and site-policy@w3.org with notice of your intention. Please, understand that you will be bound by the following terms when you contribute code:

  1. The contributor vouches that the she has all rights necessary to contribute the materials in a way that does not violate copyright, patent, and trademark rights; contractual obligations, or libel and export control regulations.
  2. The contributor agrees that all contributed materials will be governed by the W3C Software or Document licenses.
  3. W3C will retain attribution of authorship. The W3C makes no a-priori commitment to support contributions.

[added 19990323]


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