- From: Andreas Kuckartz <A.Kuckartz@ping.de>
- Date: 3 Jun 2013 13:28:18 +0200
- To: "Jeff Jaffe" <jeff@w3.org>
- Cc: "Mark Watson" <watsonm@netflix.com>, public-restrictedmedia@w3.org
Jeff Jaffe: > While we have the practice of only providing Recommendations that are > implementable in open source, we haven't said that each Recommendation > must be implementable in every open source license that's out there. > Hence we've not said that every Recommendation must be implementable in > (e.g.) GPL. I suppose that this question never came up before EME. Maybe I am wrong, but I am not aware of any currently existing W3C Recommendation (or any other W3C document) which is not implementable in GPL3 or AGPL3. > When this last came up How did that come up ? In another context than EME ? > That's not to take a position on whether we should change our policy to > insist that RECs be implementable in every open source license. But that > would be a new policy for W3C. Many people probably took such an unwritten policy for granted. Cheers, Andreas
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