- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:14:46 -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 document: - SPARQL 1.1 Overview (http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-overview/), exclusion opportunity ending on 15 April 2012 23:59 UTC This specification was 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 15 April 2012 23:59 UTC to exclude claims reading on this Recommendation track document; 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 draft identified by the following URI establishes the reference material for the purposes of this exclusion opportunity: SPARQL 1.1 Overview http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-sparql11-overview-20111117/ All Participants currently in the Working Group have made Royalty-Free licensing commitments for this document. 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: * 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
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