Re: Proposal to Adopt HTML5

On Apr 12, 2007, at 3:12 AM, Ben Meadowcroft wrote:

>
> If you became editor and took input from people who have not agreed  
> to the
> patent policy couldn't this introduce legal issues for implementors?
>

The W3C has always had a policy of taking input from the general  
public via public mailing lists that impose no special obligations to  
subscribe. For example, the CSS working group accepts public comments  
on its drafts via www-style@w3.org, despite also having a completely  
private list.

Note also that whether something is covered by a patent may bear no  
relation to who suggested it. If I unwittingly suggest an idea that,  
for example, IBM has a patent on, the fact that Apple agreed to the  
patent policy affords no protection.

Regards,
Maciej

Received on Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:46:53 UTC