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Re: Community Input on change to the Trust Legal Provisions to accommodate the inclusion of RFC Templates

2015-02-18 10:29:57
"Nico" == Nico Williams <nico(_at_)cryptonector(_dot_)com> writes:

    Nico> Doesn't a filled-in template stop being a template?  Can't
    Nico> there be two claims made, one about the template itself, and
    Nico> one about filled-in templates?  Surely we might want to make
    Nico> strong copyright claims about empty templates while allowing
    Nico> some other entity (the submitter perhaps, or the recipient of
    Nico> a filled-in template) to claim copyrights on filled-in
    Nico> templates?

I've explained why I think that claims on empty templates are really
bad.
Imagine writing a free software application to assist someone in filling
in a template.