- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:11:39 -0600
- To: Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com>
- Cc: spec-prod@w3.org
On 16 Dec 2011, at 4:56 AM, Marcos Caceres wrote: > > > > On Friday, December 16, 2011 at 7:54 AM, fantasai wrote: > >> >> No, we really *don't* want to require attribution for people to take >> our code examples and use them. That's silly. Wrt Public Domain's legal >> status, this is what CC0 is for. >> > A good way around the problem is to do what DOM4, Widgets, and other specs are doing: Make the Editor's draft be in the public domain so text, figs, etc. can be used freely by anyone. See, for example: > > http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/domcore/raw-file/tip/Overview.html > > That way, the W3C can still have the copyright over its /TR/ specs, but everyone else can just use the Editor's Draft text freely and happily. > Hi Marcos, I don't think that situation is stable; I do not expect that licensing approach is compatible. Ian > > > -- Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/ Tel: +1 718 260 9447
Received on Friday, 16 December 2011 13:11:42 UTC