Re: CC0

On 12/16/2014 10:57 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>> And personally I'm not convinced that it is a good idea since
>> CC0 advocates have been explicit that they like the idea that
>> they could create derivative specs elsewhere (which would
>> lead to fragmentation).
> I guess you can claim that you do not like the idea, but so far the
> W3C is the only organization I know that is putting this practice to
> test.

There are actually quite a number of specifications that started in W3C 
and today exist as derivative specifications outside of W3C.

>
> I've seen the opposite happen actually on  the other side of the
> fence. The majority of DOM Parsing & Serialization was written under
> CC0. However, an organization with a more restrictive license
> maintained their copy better and therefore the CC0 copy was abandoned.
> This is a shame since more web platform documentation became
> encumbered, but it also demonstrates that those advocating CC0 are not
> interested in fragmentation.
>
>

Received on Tuesday, 16 December 2014 16:08:15 UTC