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@marcoscaceres wrote: >Has there been any? If there has been then that would be in violation of the W3C Process and the IPR Bot would have gotten upset.> It is possible to accept a substantive contribution from a non-member. They need to sign a patent agreement pertaining to their contribution (there is a form for this), and the PR can then be approved via Ashnaz. The process usually involves some discussion (exploration as to why the contributor is not a WG member, content of the PR etc.), but this tends to be fairly painless. Recent examples include Facebook contributing to Service Worker and Salesforce contributing to Web Components, when both specs were in WebPlat and neither organisation was able to join. It is also possible to make the contributor an Invited Expert (IE). In WebPlat (and WebApps before it) this has been a very simple process. If the person is actively contributing (and a substantive PR is good evidence for that), we tend not to have any problem with including them as an IE to the WG. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/w3c/editing/issues/185#issuecomment-438624560
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