RF patent restriction is insufficient.

Hi,

I'd like to add my voice to the crowd of objectors over the patent poilcy 
decision to allow patents on standards which are royalty-free only on a 
restricted subset of possible uses. By adding such a clause, you are 
effectively blocking GPL'd implementations of your standards (browsers such 
as Konqueror would be unable to omply without invalidating their license). I 
believe it is your responsibility, as the body recognised as the definer of 
web standards, that you ensure such standards are implementable (at the very 
least) in all currently-available browsers.

Thanks,
Richard

Received on Sunday, 8 December 2002 08:03:37 UTC