- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 11:02:32 -0800
- To: public-html@w3.org
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Smylers <Smylers@stripey.com> wrote: > Karl Dubost writes: > >> Le 5 mars 2009 à 09:39, Lachlan Hunt a écrit : >> >> > But particularly for the authoring guides, sepcifically the HTML 5 >> > Reference that I'm working on, I think the ability for others to >> > fork that document, and incorporate it in whole or in part into >> > their own work is very important. Whether they want to produce >> > their own independent online resources, books, or other >> > publications, either commercially or non-commercially, it should be >> > possible. >> >> <irony> >> [Showing 1 - 12 of 6,601 Results][1] >> </irony> >> >> It is not an issue and has never been. It would be better to show >> "real world" use cases of existing or past issues. > > But how many of those books are any good? And would they be improved if > they could quote accurately from the spec, or from well-written > officially sanctioned references and guides? And how many of those do things that are technically illegal under the W3C policy? It's just not been a priority for W3C to enforce that policy by suing book authors. / Jonas
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