- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 09:35:16 -0500
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
As someone who is in the process of implementing several W3C specs (Canonical XML, XML, XInclude, Namespaces, and others) in LGPL'd software (http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/XOM/ and http://xincluder.sourceforge.net/) I am very concerned that patent issues may prohibit people from distributing and revising my software. The patent licensing required before patented technology can be incorporated into W3C recommendations needs to allow for derivation of GPL'd software in arbitrary ways that do not necessarily implement the recommendation. It is not sufficient to require a license only "in order to implement the standard". If such a license is not available, the recommendation should not include the patented technology. It is preferable not to issue a recommendation than to rely on such patented technology. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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