W3C has a new licensing policy [1] that allows
requests to re-license specs that have had work on them in a W3C
WG and then were abandoned, unfinished. For a spec to move from a
WG to a Community Group, for instance, it has to be able to be
licensed under the Community Group CLA which allows modification
by anyone. Without using this new policy, the abandoned specs are
published under a license that do not allow modification, so would
not allow publishing in a CG under the CLA.
I am requesting that for any SyApps specs that have already reached FPWD
that the WG decides to abandon (drop, not move to another WG),
that the WG conduct a CfC about whether to ask the Director to
relicense the abandoned spec in its final WG Note in a way that
allows a CG or other external org to pick up and continue work on
the spec (the Director picks the license, not the WG requesting it
- the WG just decides if it wants the Director to consider
relicensing - and the AC has to agree).
So, asking for a CfC to ask for relicensing to accompany any CfC
for abandoning a TR if there aren't plans to move it to another
WG. If the spec was not moving to another WG, that would apply
to:
Contacts, Messaging, Telephony, App URI, Task Scheduler, TCP UDP
Sockets
Relicensing Unfinished W3C Specifications
[1] https://www.w3.org/2014/12/relicense