- From: Robert Sayre <rsayre@mozilla.com>
- Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 15:40:47 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: public-html <public-html@w3.org>, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
----- "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > Maybe once we're in last call I'll fork the spec > into an HTML5 and an HTML6 and only do maintenance > for HTML5, adding new features only to HTML6. Actually, the W3C's licensing rules prohibit this kind of thing. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/IPR-FAQ-20000620#really The restriction makes some sense. Otherwise, someone could unilaterally bump HTML's version number, which would be an act of social violence.[1] I am in favor of licensing the body of the HTML5 spec the spec under the most liberal terms, but I wouldn't want the license to allow titling derivative works in a way that would allow them to be confused with the IETF/W3C series of HTML specifications. - Rob [1] http://intertwingly.net/blog/2006/02/23/Version-Numbers/
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