- From: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 10:03:30 -0500
- To: Jeff Jaffe <jeff@w3.org>, public-w3process@w3.org
On 12/19/2014 09:02 AM, Jeff Jaffe wrote: > > On 12/19/2014 8:57 AM, Sam Ruby wrote: >> I encourage you to explore a different scenario, one in which an >> individual authors work and publishes it independently. > > I'm not sure what you mean by "independently". This scenario certainly > would work in terms of granting W3C the rights to the content. The > "sponsor" approach seems to work partially like this. But I would not > want to institutionalize an approach where the author throws it over the > wall to W3C (using the grant you mention below) but does not participate > in the subsequent dialog about the content. Sorry, but I can't resist: False Dichotomy! Nowhere did I say (or even mean to imply) that the author or authors would be precluded from participating in the subsequent dialog about the content. As a bonus, I'll also toss in Loaded Question! I'm not sure what you mean by "the" content. Note the word "nonexclusive" in the following: >> That person subsequently becomes interested in granting to the W3C a >> perpetual, nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide right to make use of >> this work. - Sam Ruby
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