- From: Arne Johannessen <arne@thaw.de>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 14:50:20 +0200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: WHAT WG List <whatwg@whatwg.org>, public-html-comments@w3.org
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Wed, 28 May 2008, Arne Johannessen wrote: >> >> >>> In particular, we don't want people to use rel=license to point to >>> trademark licenses or patent licenses that _aren't_ copyright >>> licenses. >> >> Why not, what's the downside? > > It dilutes the point of the feature. The idea is to provide a way > for tracking pages that are covered by a particular copyright license. Ah, makes sense. >> What is the correct way to mark up links to, say, a trademark >> license _not_ covering copyright, given the current draft of the >> spec? > > Something like: > > <p><small>See our <a href="trademark.html">trademark > license</a>.</small></p> All right, so in other words there is no special mark up for this particular case. > In practice it's a non-issue since people rarely have Trademark > licenses. > Same with Patent licenses. Point taken. I was about to suggest adding a note explaining the reason for not using rel=license to mark up trademark license links, but that's pretty pointless in practice. I now think the current wording of the spec is fine. -- Arne Johannessen
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