Re: What is the "open web" ?

Jeff Jaffe:
> While we have the practice of only providing Recommendations that are
> implementable in open source, we haven't said that each Recommendation
> must be implementable in every open source license that's out there. 
> Hence we've not said that every Recommendation must be implementable in
> (e.g.) GPL.

I suppose that this question never came up before EME. Maybe I am wrong,
but I am not aware of any currently existing W3C Recommendation (or any
other W3C document) which is not implementable in GPL3 or AGPL3.

> When this last came up

How did that come up ? In another context than EME ?

> That's not to take a position on whether we should change our policy to
> insist that RECs be implementable in every open source license. But that
> would be a new policy for W3C.

Many people probably took such an unwritten policy for granted.

Cheers,
Andreas

Received on Monday, 3 June 2013 18:50:36 UTC