Honestly, I think you can perfectly reasonably just "clone", modify and distribute at will. Nobody will enforce any copyright on it; I certainly won't.
--S
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 6:10 AM Daniel Kochmański daniel@turtleware.eu wrote:
Dear Mr. McKay,
my name is Daniel Kochmański and I'm the current maintainer of McCLIM. We have a recurring dispute about "CLIM II Specification" which is distributed with the library about its licensing. I know you were kind enough to agree for us to use it, however we are not sure if we are allowed to modify it (with appropriate annotation about changes) and incorporate parts of it in other documents.
I'm writing to you with these questions:
What is the document legal status? Who is the copyright owner and what license does it have?
Are we allowed to redistribute it (like we do like now) with the source code of McCLIM?
Are we allowed to modify the document and incorporate parts of it in other documents (i.e in a manual)?
Are we allowed to create a derivative work based on it to clarify or some sections or even extend it?
Thank you for your time taken to answer these questions. I'm adding mcclim-devel mailing list to CC, for all other community members to see questions (and hopefully, the answer).
Best regards, Daniel Kochmański