- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:41:24 -0800
- To: public-css-testsuite@w3.org
On Wednesday 2008-01-09 17:13 +0100, Bert Bos wrote: > The current license requires that somebody who wants to publish modified > tests asks permission. (Making and using them is fine.) If W3C gets > overwhelmed with requests it is early enough to think about a new > system. The few requests we got so far didn't pose problems. That's not sufficient for most open-source projects. Open source projects typically provide their entire source under a specific license or set of licenses. They don't provide it under the terms "you can use it under license X if you ask the permission of the following 15 companies/people/organizations". They provide it under "you can use it under license X". The difference between those two can be a major obstacle to such use. (Given the chance that at least 1 of the 15 organizations won't respond, or will deny the request, it's usually not even worth bothering to ask.) -David -- L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ Mozilla Corporation http://www.mozilla.com/
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