W3C Document Licence etc.

Dear all,

Just a quick word on, ironically enough, patent policy, copyright and 
all that which, I am very well aware, everyone on this list knows a lot 
more about that I do.

Please note that the WG (like all W3C WGs) operates under the W3C Patent 
Policy [1] and the copyright in the documents we create will be held by 
MIT, ERCIM, Keio and Beihang. Those legal entities will make the 
documents available Royalty Free in perpetuity.

Therefore... please be careful when submitting info and content. I'm 
prompted to highlight this as I followed the link to META-SHARE and 
noted that its website is published under the CC-BY-NC-SA licence. I 
assume that's meant to cover the data served by the META SHARE service 
but that's not what it says. Please don't contribute content that is, or 
may be, encumbered by licences that are incompatible with the W3C 
licence framework.

@Victor, please can you confirm (on this public list) that the use case 
you submitted is not restricted by META-SHARE's CC licence.

Thanks

Phil

[1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/


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Received on Friday, 15 April 2016 08:47:00 UTC