- From: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 07:12:56 -0500
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- CC: Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@gmail.com>, www-archive <www-archive@w3.org>, jeff Jaffe <jeff@w3.org>, "lehors@us.ibm.com >> Arnaud Le Hors/Cupertino/IBM" <lehors@us.ibm.com>
cc += Jeff, Arnaud On 11/23/2014 04:05 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net> wrote: >> Would it be possible to fork https://github.com/whatwg/url into >> https://github.com/w3c/, and to give me the necessary access to update this? > > I'm not sure why this escaped me, but the reason this doesn't work, > provided you want to continue to contribute to the WHATWG, is that the > W3C prevents it. I was after this kind of setup in 2012, and Jeff and > Wendy told me in no uncertain terms that it was in violation of the > Member Agreement. I then became a non-Member, but the Invited Expert > and Collaborator Agreement prevents the same thing. > > So if we are to go through with this, I would need to something in > writing from the W3C and IBM (the actual Member Agreements are private > and may have differences per company as I understand it) that this is > in fact okay. I believe that there must have been a miscommunication; especially given that Jeff has indicated[1][2] that he doesn't see any changes to the W3C process required to implement what I plan to do[3]. Just to be clear, I've been doing my work on my own machine. Nobody seems to have a problem with that. I push it to my site (intertwingly.net under CC0). Nobody has a problem with that. I push it to github under my name. Nobody has a problem with that. The W3C is willing to consider the contribution. The W3C has different ideas on licensing which I'm not thrilled with, but can live with. Michael Champion has proposed that we establish a separate repository[4] for shared work. Nobody has a problem with that. Hopefully this miscommunication can be resolved before my rewriting of the parser work[5] is complete. - Sam Ruby [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3process/2014Nov/0148.html [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3process/2014Nov/0155.html [3] http://intertwingly.net/blog/2014/11/20/WHATWG-W3C-Collaboration [4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3process/2014Nov/0149.html [5] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25946
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