- From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:17:37 -0800
- To: Walter van Holst <walter.van.holst@xs4all.nl>
- Cc: "public-tracking@w3.org (public-tracking@w3.org)" <public-tracking@w3.org>
On Jan 16, 2014, at 5:36 , Walter van Holst <walter.van.holst@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On 2014-01-16 12:52, Joseph Lorenzo Hall wrote: > >> Are we misunderstanding you? Or would a modifier simply be creating a >> non-conformant UA and not violating the terms of any of the vanilla >> FOSS licenses? > > I am having consultations with, among others, the authors of the MPL on this. While still not being convinced for a material need for a requirement like this to begin with. I will keep the WG posted of the outcomes of that (including me potentially just being wrong here). > > As far as the more permissive FLOSS licenses such as BSD/MIT/Apache are concerned I don't see a problem in this regard. > > Lastly, I also have the practical question how the text proposed by David Singer can work in case intermediate network equipment inserts a DNT signal. My text is only for plug-ins or add-ons to the UA, not for anything else. Those cases are already handled by other text, and no-one suggested modifying that > > Regards, > > Walter > David Singer Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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