<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 8, 2020, 8:11 PM John Hudson <<a href="mailto:john@tiro.ca">john@tiro.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 08102020 1:56 pm, Dave Crossland wrote:<br>
> Having the two standards reference each other seems undesirable to me. <br>
> I see no issue with maintaining an "elsewhere" project, and regularly <br>
> submitting it to ISO for "international-standard-izatoin"<br>
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Q. If an implementation spec is developed in an open process, using <br>
appropriate collaborative tools and with a public and editable draft, <br>
and then submitted to ISO for standardisation, who then owns the content <br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The content copyrights remains owned by the original rights holders. The ISO license, as I understand it, is a non-exclusive assignment of copyright to "a copy", typical to "contributor license agreements," not an exclusive assignment (aka wholesale transfer) typical of work for hire agreements.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That's how there comes to be 2 instances, each with separate copyright holders. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That's how I understand the basis on which Microsoft continues to maintain OpenType, despite the non exclusive assignment to ISO for OFF.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
and can the draft in its current state continue to be public and provide <br>
the basis for subsequent development independent of the OFF text?<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If Microsoft can do it with OpenType, if Adobe can do it with cff/cff2, why can't anyone else do it with their own contributions?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div>