- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 18:40:41 +0200
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
Chris Lilley wrote:
> W3M has been discussing the request to publish authoring guidelines
> under a more permissive license than the W3C document license.
As the current editor of the authoring guide, I'd just like to say
thanks for looking into the issue.
> Several options are under discussion, including:
>
> - that the Document license already allows this under fair use
IANAL, but I don't believe the current document licence is compatible
with the GPL or the GFDL, since it doesn't allow modifications.
> - that a different license is needed
> - that the Document license should be updated W3C-wide
I would be happy with either of those, though my personal preference
would be to use the MIT licence, or even a very simple licence like that
used for the WHATWG copy of the HTML5 spec, which simply states:
"You are granted a license to use, reproduce and create derivative
works of this document."
> - that this is a copyright and not a licensing issue.
I do not understand that statement.
> Discussion continues; this is just to let you know that the request
> has been seen and is being discussed.
Thank you.
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Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software
http://lachy.id.au/
http://www.opera.com/
Received on Wednesday, 14 May 2008 16:41:20 UTC