- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:28:35 -0700
- To: Rob Sayre <rsayre@mozilla.com>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Jul 8, 2009, at 6:35 AM, Rob Sayre wrote: > On 7/7/09 9:24 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >> And likewise, I think it is important to give the issue due >> consideration. > > I agree, though I think we need to be careful about claims that we > must prove a negative. Not that you're suggesting that. Indeed, I am not asking anyone to prove a negative. I pointed out that the known licenses for patent claims on Theora do not satisfy the W3C Patent Policy. To address this would only require proving a positive, for example, by showing a suitable license. I believe this new information refutes your original rationale. If you don't want to withdraw your proposal, then I would ask you to update the rationale to be factually accurate. There are many accurate and reasonable things you could say, for example that Theora is the codec most likely to satisfy the Patent Policy in the future, even though it apparently does not today, if there is reason to believe that. Or you could provide a rationale that's not based on the Patent Policy. Regards, Maciej
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