- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:22:58 -0800
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, site-policy@w3.org
On Mar 5, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: > Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > [snip] >> it fails. It does not work for LGPL software and it does not really >> work for MIT-licensed software. > [snip] >> I was trying to start on stating which of our original use cases it >> does not meet. Perhaps that is better done by starting with the >> original list of use cases, and see which we feel are satisfied and >> which are not. > > If we start with this: > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Feb/0388.html > > And strike all the use cases that involve MIT-licensed software. > And then strike all the use cases that involve LGPL software. And > then strike all the use cases that involve forking, what are you > left with? It seems to me that the use cases for excerpts in proprietary software and non-open-source-like books may hold up. But that's about it. I think that would be a poor result. Web standards should strive to be friendly to open source software. Regards, Maciej
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