However, you *might* (as if I understood these things) have a problem
in that you already knew HTML 4.0.
>
> Well, I will squelch the thread using a counterexample. IBTWSH
> is by intention an expression of the same schema as (part of) HTML 4.0.
> However, it is an independently derived work, which I wrote based on
> my *understanding* of HTML 4.0. If I had simply copied the W3C
> version and deleted everything which I didn't wish to include in my
> subset, it would be a derivative work, but I didn't do that.
>
> I did, of course, verify (by hand) IBTWSH against HTML 4.0 to
> make sure it was a true subset, but that does not interfere with
> its copyright status, any more than verifying one dictionary against
> another does so, as long as portions of the verifying dictionary
> do not find their way into the verified dictionary.
>
> --
> John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
Matthew Fuchs
matt@veosystems.com
I am, of course, not speaking for my employer