Comments on W3C Patents Policy

I have been following the W3C's proposed patent policy and generally
support it.  However, I would like to remove the "field of use"
restriction from Item 3 of Section 3 since it conflicts with Section 7
of the GNU GPL.  This inhibits reuse and integration of free tools.

A better explanation than mine can be found at:
http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/w3c-patent.html

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Received on Friday, 3 January 2003 01:09:59 UTC