- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:56:07 -0700
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Paul Cotton <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Jun 15, 2010, at 4:40 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >> >> Thanks for updating the WHATWG draft to no longer refer to W3C decisions >> in disparaging terms. After some discussion, the Chairs would like to >> request a few additional changes to the Status of this Document and >> Introduction sections of the W3C draft. >> >> 1) This sentence, appears below the copyright notice: "The text of this >> specification is also available in the WHATWG Web Applications 1.0 >> specification, under a license that permits reuse of the specification >> text.". This sentence appears below the Status of this Document section: >> "The contents of this specification are also part of a specification >> published by the WHATWG, which is available under a license that permits >> reuse of the specification text." >> >> Since there is now text in the W3C copy that is not in the WHATWG copy, >> we think these statements are no longer fully accurate. >> >> We propose text along the following lines to replace both of these >> sentences: "Portions of this specification are also part of a >> specification published by the WHATWG, which is available under a >> license that permits reuse of the specification text." > > I changed the second paragraph to not mention the license issue and > instead be a more accurate statement of the relationship with other works > (as required by the pub rules -- the paragraph had gotten away from its > original role over time), and changed the license statement to refer to > "The bulk of" rather than "Portions". Incidentally, on my own behalf, I'd like to think you for making this change. I believe it addresses the concerns about this section. Regards, Maciej
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