Re: Campaign for position of chair and mandate to close this community group

Mark Watson:
>     And there currently exists no common understanding regarding the terms
>     "open" and "open standard" within the W3C.
> 
> 
> Regarding "open standard" I believe the W3C has signed up to open-stand.org.

Correct. But the problem is that the definition and principles used by
open-stand.org are not precise enough to help: Even requiring
FRAND-licenses is allowed:
http://open-stand.org/principles/

>     *If* Tim Bernes-Lee and the W3C decide to promote a specification to
>     become an "open standard" which can not be implemented using copyleft
>     Open Source licenses due to a fundamental incompatibility *then* the
>     discussion here would have failed. So far such a decision does not seem
>     to have been made.
> 
> 
> FWIW, EME *can* be fully implemented under a copyleft open source
> license on platforms that expose the necessary capabilities. That is
> presently only Windows, but nontheless.

I am working on a more precise formulation of the incompatibility issue.

Cheers,
Andreas

Received on Friday, 10 January 2014 17:00:49 UTC