- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:20:05 -0700
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Cc: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Oct 8, 2009, at 2:05 AM, Sam Ruby wrote: > Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >>> In any case, it seems to me that Change Proposals should come with >>> a copyright waiver, assignment or license that makes the Change >>> Proposal (if incorporated to a draft) not add restrictions to >>> either how the WHATWG licenses spec or how the W3C licenses specs. >> We did not think of that. The W3C Process document does not seem to >> cover copyright assignment or waiver. I am hoping someone from the >> W3C Team can advise on what is appropriate here. > > A simple statement that the text needs to be something that we can > include under whatever license we come up for the deliverables we > produce will suffice. > > My hope remains that we settle on MIT. If the W3C and WHATWG can't > come to an agreement on a license, then we will need to revisit this > -- but then again, we will need to revisit a lot of assumptions, so > I would recommend that we cross that bridge when we get to it. I think the W3C wants to hold copyright on the document, regardless of the license, and probably would not want to add the copyright notices of individuals. Copyright disclaimer/assignment might be implicit for HTML WG members (though I can't find this spelled out anywhere, so I don't really know), but from non-members we'd likely need an explicit statement of some kind. In addition, we'd probably want anyone producing a Change Proposal to agree to the Patent Policy if they haven't already. Again, guidance from the Team would be welcome. Regards, Maciej
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