- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 14:29:36 -0800
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org, site-policy@w3.org
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Philippe Le Hegaret wrote: >> >> In response to requests from developers to make it easier >> to include portions of W3C specifications in software documentation, >> bug reports, code, and test cases, W3C have drafted a new >> Excerpt & Citation License: >> http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2008/06-excerpt-license > > Increasing license proliferation is a really bad idea here. I would be > opposed to introducing yet another license. The legal situation is > complicated enough as it is. We should just reuse one of the many, many > existing licenses. I'm personally actually not very concerned about license proliferation, though it would always be nice to avoid. However I do think that the requirement that the license is excruciatingly clear would be helped a lot by reusing an existing license. Licenses like cc*, MIT and modified-BSD have received a lot of testing and there is a lot more certainty and understanding in what they mean than any newly written license. So because of this I would recommend reusing an existing license. Or otherwise use very permissive wording to ensure that there is no uncertainty. / Jonas * Note that I am not very familiar with the various cc licenses, so I'm not sure which, if any, of them are compatible with the licenses that were listed in the original use cases.
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