Re: What is the "open web" ?

On 6/3/2013 7:28 AM, Andreas Kuckartz wrote:
> 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 ?

A few weeks ago in the restricted-media mailing list.

>
>> 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

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