Re: Status update on WG creation steps

On 2014-07-25 10:15, Francois Daoust wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The draft WG charter was reviewed by W3M. This brought two changes to 
> the charter:
>
> 1. The following text was added to the Scope to clarify support for 
> more than one secondary display to address accessibility requirements:
> [[
>  Sending content to a connected display creates a presentation 
> session. Applications can create multiple presentation sessions to 
> control multiple displays, although synchronization between them is 
> not currently supported by the API.
> ]]
> 2. the license was reverted to the usual W3C Document License. The 
> dual license remains an experiment in the HTML WG for the time being.

The purpose of asking for the dual license was to facilitate being able 
to pass parts of the spec back to the CG if it proved to be too early 
for the WG to take some part of it up.  e.g. if the WG worked on some 
part of the first spec or some future extension spec but then decided it 
needed more work in the CG and wanted to pass the modified section 
back.  But, use of a permissive license was rejected.

There is a simple way to still be able to pass work back in a way that 
there haven't been objections to.  In addition to the usual W3C Document 
License, JavaScript, CSS and HTML5 in examples and also Web IDL in the 
TR publications could additionally be licensed under the W3C Software 
License.  That has been done before for the DOM3 spec. Licensed in that 
way, the WG could pass IDL or code examples back to the CG for areas 
where there was too little agreement to include in the WG spec.  When 
the CG resolved the issues, it could create an extension spec to pass 
back to the WG.

I'll propose the following modification to the WG Charter during the AC 
review.  I'll also include an example of what the copyright in the TR 
drafts could look like.

Addition to the charter could be:
"TR publications of the specification will be licensed under the W3C 
Document License 
<http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-documents-20021231>. 
Additionally, HTML5, CSS and JavaScript code in examples and Web IDL 
within the document will be licensed under the W3C Software Notice and 
License 
<http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231>."

The actual text in the document could be:

"Copyright © [$date-of-document]World Wide Web Consortium 
<http://www.w3.org/>, (Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
<http://www.csail.mit.edu/>,European Research Consortium for Informatics 
and Mathematics <http://www.ercim.org/>,Keio University 
<http://www.keio.ac.jp/>,Beihang <http://ev.buaa.edu.cn/>). All Rights 
Reserved.http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-documents-20021231.  
Additionally, JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS that appear within examples and 
Web IDL within this document are also licensed under the W3C Software 
Notice and License 
<http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231>."

I hope that would get support during the AC review and it could be added 
to the charter.

>
> The updated draft charter will likely be sent out to the AC for review 
> next week. I encourage you to get in touch with your AC representative 
> to support the charter and/or send your comments (on above mentioned 
> changes or other parts of the charter).
>
> Thanks,
> Francois.
>
> PS: Anssi, I updated the draft charter directly in W3C space. I'll 
> issue a pull request to the repo on GitHub when I am back from vacation.
>
>
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