Apologies if this is a repeat post, seems my mail server has crashed again. Daniel Phillips wrote: > There is an obvious way to avoid troublesome questions of which > standards are essential and which are not, and who should be > restricted from implementing which: remove the provisions for RAND > licensing from the PPF, and rely on RF licensing instead. Also, remove the third clause in the RF definition, which mandates that a Royalty-Free License "shall not be considered accepted by an implementer who manifests an intent not to accept the terms of the Royalty-Free License as offered by the licensor". I had raised my concerns regarding this in relation to open source implementors yesterday, but no one from the W3C has clarified this as yet. I agree with Daniel, and numerous others. RAND has no place in web standards. Cheers Jason Antony
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