- From: Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 17:19:55 -0400
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>, "public-html-admin@w3.org" <public-html-admin@w3.org>
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org> wrote: >> Today the W3C Director proposed to the W3C Membership a draft revision >> to the HTML Working Group charter: >> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/charter/2013/ >> >> The charter is unique because of a provision that would let the group >> decide whether to publish extension specifications under CC-BY, which is >> more permissive than W3C's Document License. The proposal intends to >> encourage collaboration. >> >> The W3C Membership reviewed a draft HTML Working Group charter in >> February when one Member registered a Formal Objection and requested >> changes around licensing. Given the importance of this issue and a new >> proposal focused on extension specifications, the Director now seeks >> feedback from the Membership. >> >> The HTML extension specifications present an opportunity to experiment >> with an alternate, more permissive license, in response to Member >> feedback. We anticipate that the experiment can inform broader licensing >> discussions. >> >> We look forward to hearing from the full Membership on this important >> topic; Member feedback will play an important role in our next steps. > > I strongly support this. The previous stance, often justified with > the argument that the restrictive copyright was necessary to "prevent > forking", was terrible. We should prevent forking by continuing to > publish the best specification, not by trying to takedown > alternatives. > > ~TJ > +1 -- Brian Kardell :: @briankardell :: hitchjs.com
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