Re: Differences between the W3C and WHATWG specifications

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 22.06.2010 01:40, L. David Baron wrote:
>>
>> ...
>> The current licensing situation means that the only practical way
>> the WHATWG and W3C can work together on the same specification is if
>> all of the text originates on the WHATWG side.  That seems like an
>> ...
>
> Are you saying that all text *is* originating on the WHATWG side?

I'll let Hixie speak to this.

> Also, is it the actual text that counts, or the technical input it was based on?

I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice:

What is copyrighted is the actual text and not the technical
requirements. The copyright does not prevent anyone from writing a
different text which has the same technical requirements. If you want
something that protects the technical requirements you need a patent.

The copyright also does not prevent anyone from creating a different
piece of text, with similar or wildly different technical
requirements, and calling it "HTML". If you want something that
protects the name "HTML" you need a trademark.

/ Jonas

Received on Tuesday, 22 June 2010 07:28:42 UTC