- From: Bayle Shanks <bshanks@stanford.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 14:01:28 -0800
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
I think it's not too much to ask that any standard that the w3c promulgates be implementable by GPL programs? I am not a lawyer, but I have heard that there the "The license may be suspended if the licensee sues the licensor;" and the "Field of use" restrictions may produce GPL incompatibility. You can guess the firestorm that would ensure should legitimate W3C recommendations be unimplementable by GPL software. The recommendation would either have to be withdrawn, or free software types would have to ignore the recommendation and follow the conflicting recommendation of some alternate standards body. Why allow the chance of this? The most likely outcome is a big waste of time and money and the withdrawal of the Recommendation. Why not simply make the Policy tighter to begin with? Thanks for your time, bayle
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