- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:18:40 -0800
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, plh@w3.org
On Feb 2, 2009, at 11:47 PM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > * Is the intent to license the IDL pieces also under a software- > oriented license that has previously been found suitable for > licensing software interfaces in a way that doesn't unduly interfere > with the licenses of downstream projects using the interface > definitions? (Consider the recent W3C interface licensing discussion > in connection to use in Batik.) For IDL, it would be helpful if open source browser engines such as Gecko or WebKit could incorporate it directly, so a license known to be compatible with the LGPL (for WebKit) and with MPL/LGPL/GPL tri- license (for Gecko) would be best. I believe an MIT style license fits the bill. This would also allow proprietary browser engines to incorporate spec IDL if they choose to. Regards, Maciej
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