Re: New co-chair and minor charter change coming

Great to see things moving forward. Congratulations Corentin, and looking
forward to getting some momentum behind these efforts!

-Ken


On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Corentin Wallez <cwallez@google.com>
wrote:

> Thanks Dean for your trust, I'm looking forward to working with everyone
> to make super-fast graphics and compute available on the Web! The charter
> changes are great too and I'm sure we'll see creative uses of the
> ANGLE-like library.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Corentin
>
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Dean Jackson <dino@apple.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We had some last minute comments on the charter, particularly with
>> respect to making sure that any software produced by the Group, such as
>> something like ANGLE to serve as an basis for implementation, is clearly
>> available under an acceptable license. We already have the W3C Software
>> License, but we are going to go beyond that, to ensure that contributions
>> are made in a way that provides correct IP grants. This shouldn't really
>> matter to most people - we're just double checking that any software would
>> be available as Open Source the way everyone expects. e.g. contributors
>> *might* have to sign a CLA of some kind if they make a significant patch to
>> the software.
>>
>> Lawyers at the member companies are working with W3C to get something
>> that we all agree on.
>>
>> In less boring news, Corentin Wallez from Google, member of the ANGLE
>> project, has agreed to Co-Chair this Community Group. Corentin co-authored
>> Google's NXT proposal for this group, and I know he'll do a fantastic job
>> as Chair.
>>
>> Dean
>>
>>
>>
>