- From: Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 11:21:52 +0100
- To: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- CC: www-dom@w3.org
John Cowan wrote: > > Eric Richardson wrote: > > > Could someone explain why free/open source would have to use different > > packages. This would defeat > > the portability in Java once the DOM can support full portability(version > > 3?). > > It's just that as written, the Java/JavaScript/IDL code in the DOM is under > the W3C document copyright rather than the W3C software copyright. > The document copyright (rightly) forbids changing anything, but software > that contains unchangeable components is not Open Source > (http://www.opensource.org/osd.html). Making the DOM code available under > the software copyright, extended to say "If you modify this you can't > use w3c.* packages or claim DOM compliance any more", does the trick. Lauren Wood and the W3C worked on the copyright, read the new copyright notice in the CR document: http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/CR-DOM-Level-2-19991210/copyright-notice.html The open source organization is on the W3C agenda. I'll forward the decision in this mailing list. Regards, Philippe. -- Philippe Le Hegaret - http://www.w3.org/People/LeHegaret/ World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), DOM Activity Lead
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