Re: HTML test suite licensing

Dan Connolly wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 14:18 -0400, Sam Ruby wrote:
>> Dan Connolly wrote:
> [...]
>>> I followed up with W3C management/legal and they're OK with:
>>>
>>>  (a) using the W3C software license for collaboration between
>>>   the HTML WG and the html5lib project
>> This would require moving the project off of the code.google.com 
>> infrastructure.  More details: http://tinyurl.com/3agnot
> 
> I read that message from Daniel Berlin, and it doesn't seem as strong as
> your "require" suggests.

Perhaps you might find one of these to be a bit stronger:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=192
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Code#Project_Hosting
http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting/msg/8a51e6c2f73ff932
http://www.linux.com/articles/56034

By the way, I know Greg Stein pretty well.  Google's stance on this is 
*very* firm.

> But OK, I'll see about using the MIT license for part (a).

Cool.

>>>  (b) at some milestone, publishing a snapshot of the test suite
>>>   wrapped in a W3C technical report under the W3C document license.
>>>
>>> James, Anne, and company, does that seems OK to you?
>>>
>>> If switching from the MIT license to the W3C software license
>>> is a big hassle, I'm perhaps flexible on that.
>>>
>>> Chris W., does this seem OK with you? Based on your earlier
>>> feedback, I'm sorta presuming it is.

- Sam Ruby

Received on Wednesday, 24 October 2007 19:09:02 UTC