- From: Carine Bournez <carine@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 07:46:50 +0000
- To: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Cc: chaals@yandex-team.ru, Revising W3C Process Community Group <public-w3process@w3.org>
Hi, On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 09:46:01AM -0700, David Singer wrote: > > A group operates under charter A and produces Working Drafts for which the members have Exclusion Opportunities. > > The charter expires, and a new charter B is written which documents continuing work on those documents is in scope. When you say 'new charter B', you mean the WG name is changed from WG A to WG B? > Now, W3C Member Q, who was not a member of the WG under charter A, joins the WG under charter B, before that WG has produced any new Working Drafts. > Does Q have an exclusion opportunity for the WDs produced under Charter A, and hence an agreement to license, or not? Upon joining a WG, a member has obligations wrt published items. If nothing is published yet in that WG, there is no obligation yet. So if charters A and B are for the same group, then everything published under charter A is covered by patent commitment (possibly exclusion). If charters A and B are for different groups (i.e. deliverable transferred from group A to group B), then the exclusion opportunity is similar to a FPWD as soon as group B publishes the document again.
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