- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:45:50 -0600
- To: public-rdf-dawg@w3.org
- Cc: member-cfe@w3.org
Dear Advisory Committee representative, This is an update regarding the W3C Patent Policy exclusion opportunity for the following Recommendation Track documents: - SPARQL 1.1 Entailment Regimes (http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-entailment/), exclusion opportunity ending on 21 March 2010 23:59 UTC - SPARQL 1.1 Uniform HTTP Protocol for Managing RDF Graphs (http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-http-rdf-update/), exclusion opportunity ending on 21 March 2010 23:59 UTC - SPARQL 1.1 Protocol for RDF (http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-protocol/), exclusion opportunity ending on 21 March 2010 23:59 UTC - SPARQL 1.1 Query (http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/), exclusion opportunity ending on 21 March 2010 23:59 UTC - SPARQL 1.1 Service Description (http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-service-description/), exclusion opportunity ending on 21 March 2010 23:59 UTC - SPARQL 1.1 Update (http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-update/), exclusion opportunity ending on 21 March 2010 23:59 UTC These specifications were produced by the SPARQL Working Group. If you do not wish to exclude patent claims during this exclusion opportunity, no further action is required. Participants have until 21 March 2010 23:59 UTC to exclude claims reading on these Recommendation track documents; excluded claims are not subject to the licensing requirements of the W3C Patent Policy for this document. For more information about exclusions, please see http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Exclusion To make exclusions, please use the following form: http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/35463/exclude Per section 4.1 of the Patent Policy [1], the drafts identified by the following URIs establish the reference material for the purposes of these exclusion opportunities: SPARQL 1.1 Entailment Regimes http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-sparql11-entailment-20091022/ SPARQL 1.1 Uniform HTTP Protocol for Managing RDF Graphs http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-sparql11-http-rdf-update-20091022/ SPARQL 1.1 Protocol for RDF http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-sparql11-protocol-20091022/ SPARQL 1.1 Query http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-sparql11-query-20091022/ SPARQL 1.1 Service Description http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-sparql11-service-description-20091022/ SPARQL 1.1 Update http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-sparql11-update-20091022/ All Participants currently in the Working Group have made Royalty-Free licensing commitments for these documents. Participants wishing to resign from this group should review licensing obligations and exclusion opportunities described in section 4.2 of the Patent Policy [2]. Summary information for this group related to the W3C Patent Policy is available at: http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/35463/status If you have any questions or need further information, please contact, for the SPARQL Working Group: * Ivan Herman at ivan@w3.org * Sandro Hawke at sandro@w3.org For more information on the W3C Patent Policy and patent claim exclusions, see: http://www.w3.org/2003/12/22-pp-faq Thank you, For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director; Ian Jacobs, Head of W3C Communications [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-exclusion-with [2] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-exclusion-resign -- Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/ Tel: +1 718 260 9447
Received on Thursday, 21 January 2010 02:46:00 UTC