- From: Benjamin M. Schwartz <bmschwar@fas.harvard.edu>
- Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:01:35 -0400
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
- CC: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
Received on Tuesday, 2 August 2011 21:20:38 UTC
I'm writing as a volunteer for Xiph.Org, developer of free multimedia technology like Ogg Vorbis and Theora. We're part of an IETF audio codec effort called "Opus" that may soon end up in the W3C through the WebRTC/RTC-Web effort. At the IETF, we have licensed several patents related to Opus under the strongest royalty-free license we could devise [1]. I think our license is similar to what the W3C expects. How can we make sure that our license would be acceptable at the W3C? We'd like to be sure it is, because we may start recommending it as a template for others interested in royalty-free licenses. Thanks, Ben Schwartz [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1524/ [2] http://www.webmproject.org/license/additional/ P.S. I think there's a bug in the patent policy text.[3] Section 5.6 of the W3C patent policy ("may be suspended with respect to any licensee when licensor is sued by licensee")[3] is incompatible with the "non-normative summary"[4], which says "The license may require a royalty-free "grant back" or reciprocal licenses either to the original patent holder or to all other implementers". I imagine that "or to all other implementors" is the actual intention. [3] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Requirements [4] http://www.w3.org/2004/02/05-patentsummary.html
Received on Tuesday, 2 August 2011 21:20:38 UTC