Re: PaySwarm is controlled by this group (was: Re: web-payments.org vs. payswarm.com)

On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Joseph Potvin <jpotvin@opman.ca> wrote:
> RE: "control of those specs was handed over to this Community Group some
> time ago"
>
> Is the "handed over" part explicit and documented?
>
> How I've handled the transfer of works developed for sharing by my firm
> (call it XYZ) to an autonomous free/libre/open future under a group of
> non-profits (call them UVW) was with a signed document entitled "Transfer of
> Project Authority".  It included the following text:
> ...
> Before any re-use, this text should be reviewed and adapted by your own
> legal counsel, taking into account your circumstances. I am not a lawyer.
> ...

What does this accomplish?  Are the W3C policies, processes, and using
the CLA not sufficient?

Is there a belief that we at Digital Bazaar have some evil intentions
here that require more legalese?  If anyone believes we are not acting
in good faith, please let us know and we'll do our best to address the
concerns.  Is that the case with this issue?  I have to wonder due to
the overwhelming enthusiasm to switch from the "PaySwarm" naming.  We
have contributed many thousands of hours of effort into advancing
payments related community specs and open projects including RDFa,
JSON-LD, Forge, PaySwarm, and more.  We are committed to working under
the open process and licensing advocated by organizations like the W3C
and IETF because they provide excellent legal, procedural, technical,
and community frameworks for developing open standards.  Do we have
commercial goals related to this technology?  Of course.  I imagine so
do many of the companies and organizations of the participants in this
group.  That is exactly why we are using open W3C processes to protect
everyone.  The hope is this lets us all collaborate to develop great
technology and worldwide standards.  These standards will have to be
named something at some point.  When we started the standardization we
thought the project name "PaySwarm" sounded rather catchy.  If the
community decides it sounds too much like a Digital Bazaar controlled
brand, that's fine.  But names like WPML and WPTP just don't sound as
fun!

-dave

Received on Tuesday, 31 December 2013 06:38:22 UTC