From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 01:34:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Licensing a file format (was Re: SVN Branch Description Format)
Message-ID: <20120319013422.GC19680@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <4F668BD4.70808@pileofstuff.org>

Hi Andrew,

Andrew Sayers wrote:

> I'm planning to release the spec under a Creative Commons
> Attribution-NoDerivs license
[...]
> So the big question - would you be more inclined to use/contribute to
> the SVN Branch Description Format if it had a different license?

Yes.  By the way, I think fear of forking/discussion of potential
improvements/translation into other languages in the context of
standards is misguided.  If you would like legal protection for your
standard, that is what trademark law is for.

Kind regards,
Jonathan