- From: Jeff Jaffe <jeff@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 14:33:07 -0500
- To: David Singer <singer@apple.com>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- CC: "Michael Champion (MS OPEN TECH)" <Michael.Champion@microsoft.com>, public-w3process <public-w3process@w3.org>
On 12/16/2014 2:24 PM, David Singer wrote: > If I own the copyright in my contributions (and I do), I cannot then be constrained in what I do with something I own, reasonably, can I? Well, you can be constrained if you agree in advance to constrain yourself. I believe that is Sam's concern. My understanding is that when this was instituted, that W3C (Team? AC?) was concerned about allowing IE's to come into W3C with contributions and then creating derivative works which would cause confusion or non-interoperability. Hence they asked IEs to agree not to create such confusion or non-interoperability. Someone who has been around longer than me can clarify whether that was indeed the concern.
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