- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 23:53:05 +0000 (UTC)
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Jim Ley wrote: > On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:26:55 +0000 (UTC), Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Jim Ley wrote: > > > So that has changed from the previous situation where you made it very > > > clear you were doing this as an individual. > > > > You are mixing two things. First, WHATWG only recognises individuals, not > > companies. > > Could you explain what this means? It means you won't see a company name in the list of members, only people's names. > > Requesting an "urgent reply" for something like this would only serve > > to reduce my credibility within the company. > > but it's clear from this mailing list that this is an issue that the > WHAT-WG wants resolved (it's not just me who's asked about it) So I see > no reason why it should, you're just the spokesman here. For what it's worth, I actually did request an urgent reply, several times. I don't think it had much effect. :-) > Me, I don't want permission to do anything right now, I just wanted > clarification of why a WHAT-WG specification is copyright a single > vendor, because I believe that limits the options of what could be done > - I don't want an open licence etc. I want it to be owned by someone, I > just don't want that someone to be a public company - I'd much rather it > was copyright Ian Hickson as an individual because I believe that to be > more trustworty than a company that could be bought at any time. Hopefully the updated notice resolves your concerns. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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