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Ken Schwaber’s “Confusion about Scrum”

On December 31st 2009 Ken Schwaber posted his article "Confusion about Scrum" in the Yahoo ScrumDevelopment Newsgroup.

He states that

There are now two definitions of Scrum. One is maintained and sustained by Jeff Sutherland and myself at www.scrum.org. Another is an old copy that is posted at www.scrumalliance.org, by the ScrumAlliance.

His article continues mentioning what sounds like the start of a copyright dispute over the Chinese version of the Scrum Guide which in its original form is written and maintained by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland. Apparently now the ScrumAlliance claims ownership to the Chinese translation of the Scrum Guide. As Ken points out

Any of you familiar with copyright law know that a derivative of the original is still owned by the original copyright holder.

Ken Schwaber recommends

that you refer to the Scrum Guide created and sustained by
the authors of Scrum, Jeff and myself.

This is serious news.