Re: Switch touch events level 2 to software and document license?

Perfect, thanks Doug!


On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org> wrote:

> Hi, Rick–
>
> Since Touch Events v2 [1]  is not an official W3C spec, but just a
> Community Group spec, you can use whatever license you want.
>
> On a related note, there are some other problems with the spec; it says
> that it's published by the Web Events Working Group, and it uses the
> Editor's Draft stylesheet, which makes it seem like an official W3C spec,
> which are misleading.
>
> I created a PR that changes the license, and also correct the misleading
> bits.
>
> [1] https://w3c.github.io/touch-events/
>
> Regards–
> Doug
>
>
> On 3/18/16 1:29 PM, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
>
>> On 18/03/2016 15:11, Rick Byers wrote:
>>
>>> We just switched
>>> <
>>> https://github.com/w3c/pointerevents/commit/79e60122e7185bec4485dc7845ea2b49f018548b
>>> >
>>>
>>> the Pointer Events spec to the new (more permissive) W3C S&D license
>>> <
>>> https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2015/copyright-software-and-document
>>> >.
>>>
>>> I'd like to do the same for Touch Events, but the process isn't clear to
>>> me since we don't have a WG chartered for TE at the moment.
>>>
>>> Doug, is there any reason we can't just update the license in GitHub
>>> now?  Obviously we'll still need to go through a chartering or other
>>> process when we get to the point of wanting to publish an official
>>> document.
>>>
>>
>> +1 if this would be possible.
>>
>> P
>>
>
>

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