Re: "Open Web Platform" versus "Web Platform" Re: Netflix HTML5 player in IE 11 on Windows 8.1 from Andreas Kuckartz on 2013-06-28 (public-restrictedmedia@w3.org from June 2013)

From: Andreas Kuckartz <A.Kuckartz@ping.de>
Date: 28 Jun 2013 12:26:19 +0200
To: "Jeff Jaffe" <jeff@w3.org>
Cc: "Nikos Roussos" <comzeradd@mozilla-community.org>, public-restrictedmedia@w3.org
Message-ID: <51CD64CB.4020301@ping.de>

Jeff Jaffe:
> As noted elsewhere in this thread, recently we have also adopted a
> practice of making sure that our Recommendations are implementable in
> open source - although we have not adopted a practice that they be
> implementable with every open source license.

That a specification is implementable using a liberal Open Source
license such as the BSD or MIT license is meaningless because
specifications which can not be implemented using such licenses do not
and can not exist.

"Implementable in Open Source" therefore only has a real meaning when
other Open Source licenses - especially copyleft licenses - are considered.

Cheers,
Andreas

Received on Friday, 28 June 2013 11:07:41 UTC