- From: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:25:17 +0100
- To: "Philip Taylor" <pjt47@cam.ac.uk>
- Cc: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:24:36 +0100, Philip Taylor <pjt47@cam.ac.uk> wrote: > > Karl Dubost wrote: >> Maybe we should first identify what are the use cases and see if the >> set of licenses, we have from W3C Document Licenses to others, covers >> or not the use cases. >> So far I see >> * Publishing the full or parts of a specification in a book to be sold. >> * Include prose of the specification in software from proprietary to >> complete open source >> Something else? > > * Creating a new competing specification for an HTML-like language, > without the permission of the W3C, and being able to reuse and modify > text from the original HTML 5 spec to avoid wasted effort. As long as it is clear that this is what is being done, then I agree that it is a useful use case to support. It may be that in practice the way to do that is with a copyright restriction that makes certain demands, but this should remain possible, and effectively W3C should support evolution of HTML, including exploratory development of specs outside W3C. Ideally those would be brought back to W3C as happened with HTML5, but there should not be such a precondition - just a requirement of clarity about what any spec happens to be. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera: http://www.opera.com
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