- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 10:41:41 -0500
- To: Peter Junge <peter@sursen.com>
- Cc: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
On 28 May 2012, at 10:12 PM, Peter Junge wrote: > Dear Sirs and Madams, > > I'm writing you on behalf of my employer Beijing Sursen Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. (http://www.sursen.com/english/index.htm). > > Sursen is implementing and using SVG (http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/) in several of its products. Some of those products do not implement the SVG specification completely, but only use profiles and subsets. These profiles and subsets are retaining compatibility to SVG and do not add any kind of extensions. Our questions is if the the W3C Patent Policy (http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/) is also valid for our products, even though they do not implement SVG entirely. Hello Peter, According to the W3C Patent Policy, if there are patents, Royalty-Free commitments are given for implementations of SVG. Whether implementation of a subset or profile of SVG can be considered an implementation of SVG is a legal matter whose answer may vary according to jurisdiction. W3C currently does not take a position on the question. Regards, Ian -- Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/ Tel: +1 718 260 9447
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