- From: Chris Blume (ProgramMax) <programmax@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 16:13:58 -0400
- To: "Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Working Group" <public-png@w3.org>
Received on Friday, 14 March 2025 20:14:13 UTC
Hello everyone, PNG Third Edition had a Candidate Recommendation snapshot <https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/CR-png-3-20250313/>. Also, the PNG group has entered a patent call for exclusion period until 5-12-2025. When we all joined the PNG group, we agreed to a royalty-free licensing commitment. If your organization has a patent that might conflict, now is the time to look into it and resolve it. I think this means after the exclusion period we can submit the snapshot to W3C for review. So I think that means the group is in a holding pattern for at least 2 months. That is a long time. We might want to start on Fourth Edition, parallelizing the work a bit. Would you all prefer we wait until Third Edition has completed or would you prefer we hit the ground running with Fourth Edition? Said another way, should we cancel Monday's meeting or create a Fourth Edition branch?
Received on Friday, 14 March 2025 20:14:13 UTC