Re: W3C Patent Policy Framework Proposal from Glenn Randers-Pehrson on 2001-10-01 (www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org from October 2001)

From: Glenn Randers-Pehrson <glennrp@home.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 08:44:12 -0400
To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20011001084412.00d22ad0@netmail.home.com>

>From: "Daniel J. Weitzner" <djweitzner@w3.org>
>Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 08:27:30 -0400
>Subject: Re: W3C Patent Policy Framework Proposal
>
>Thanks for the comment. Could you please explain why your believe this would
>result in a loss of support from the Free Software folk? I can certainly see
>why the RAND working groups would be troublesome. What's wrong with the
>Royalty-Free groups in your opinion.

Section 5.3 describes a mechanism for converting a RF group to RAND.
That's scary.

Glenn Randers-Pehrson (PNG, MNG, libpng, pngcrush, ImageMagick)

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