15 May
2026
15 May
'26
10:28 a.m.
On Fri, 15 May 2026 at 02:16, Thilo Molitor <thilo(a)eightysoft.de> wrote:
And also what Dave said: an author writing a pre-XEP
and then walking away
before it becomes a "proper XEP" would be a problem if the pre-XEP was
just a
wiki page or something else without assigning copyright to the XSF: even
if
someone wanted to work on the pre-XEP and advance it to a "proper XEP",
that
wouldn't be possible unless the original author assigned copyright to the
XSF,
but that may never happen.
I realised there's a much simpler case where keeping pre-XEPs outside the
IPR policy causes horror. If multiple people collaborate on a pre-XEP, then
they all have a claim on the copyright. It'd be slightly harder to move the
pre-XEP under the IPR policy than to relicense a typical open-source
project - you need to contact every author, etc.
Dave.