Re: Contribution to W3C: Turtle Specification

Thank you, Dave, for this contribution. I would like to acknowledge
that the your contributing this material to W3C does not, in itself,
have any implications for Yahoo!, Inc. in terms of the W3C Patent
Policy.

 Ian Jacobs, Head of W3C Communications

On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 16:16 -0700, Dave Beckett wrote:
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>             Contribution to W3C: Turtle Specification
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> Submitted Materials
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>    I, David Beckett hereby contribute to the World Wide Web Consortium[1]
>    the following specification, comprising the following documents
>    attached hereto:
>     1. [2]Turtle - Terse RDF Triple Language including examples
>       md5sum turtle.zip: 3dd94798d4f5fd2ecce4bb9645ff6c68
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>     2. Turtle test files
>       md5sum tests.zip:  46b56a875718d39fd33fb2a87b032cc0
> 
>    The subject matter of this contribution was conceived of and developed
>    by me while at the University of Bristol, prior to my employment at
>    Yahoo! Inc. Accordingly, I contribute this material in my individual
>    capacity and not on behalf of Yahoo! Inc.
> 
> Intellectual Property Statements
> 
> Copyrights
> 
>    I hereby grant to the W3C a perpetual, nonexclusive, royalty-free,
>    world-wide right and license under the copyright I hold on this
>    contribution, and to copy, publish and distribute the contribution
>    under the [3]W3C document licenses.
> 
>    Should this material be used as a contribution towards a W3C Activity,
>    I grant a right and license of the same scope to any derivative works
>    prepared by the W3C and based on, or incorporating all or part of, the
>    contribution. I further agree that any derivative works of this
>    contribution prepared by the W3C shall be solely owned by the W3C.
> 
> Trade and Service Marks (if any marks identified)
> 
>    The contribution refers to the following trade and service marks
>    (registered or not): NONE
> 
> Patents
> 
>    I agree to offer licenses according to the W3C Royalty-Free licensing
>    requirements described in [4]section 5 of the 5 February 2004 W3C
>    Patent Policy for any portion of the contribution that is subsequently
>    incorporated in a W3C Recommendation.
> 
> Suggested action
> 
>    I suggest that the W3C [5]Semantic Web Interest Group publish this
>    contribution as an Interest Group Note.
> 
> Contributed
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>    this 8 April 2007,
> 
>    David Beckett
>      _________________________________________________________________
> 
> References
> 
>    1. http://www.w3.org/
>    2. http://www.dajobe.org/2004/01/turtle/
>    3. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-documents
>    4. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Requirements
>    5. http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/interest/
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