- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 11:35:27 -0700
- To: "Dailey, David P." <david.dailey@sru.edu>
- Cc: "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>, public-html@w3.org
On May 5, 2007, at 5:40 AM, Dailey, David P. wrote: > > > Fri 5/4/2007 7:01 PM Gregory J. Rosmaita wrote: >> Question 1: NO > [...] > >> in addition, i am greatly disturbed by the implications of the >> question, in light of the copyright claims on HTML5 and WF2 by a >> number of developers. > > Hi Greg. You know it is interesting that you raise this question. > When it came time to vote, I noticed the copyright notice for the > first time and was curious about it. I had planned to ask a > question or point of order or something in www-archive (http:// > lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/ ). I got busy and forgot. > > I would assume -- maybe naively -- that upon formal adoption of the > proposal, the copyright would be formally transfered from its > current owners to a state of joint ownership by both the companies > that created it and the W3C. I don't know how these things usually > work, but I seem to recall that at least some of the copyrights on > the work of the W3C are jointly held by W3C and MIT. I don't recall > signing any sort of a copyright release when I started contributing > to WHATWG, but I suspect there is a sort of implied license there. In the original proposal, we agreed to arrange for a non-exclusive transfer of copyright to the W3C, so I don't believe there is a real problem here. Regards, Maciej
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