- From: Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>
- Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 18:09:27 -0700
- To: www-qa-wg@w3.org
The issue of licenses for test materials will be discussed on our 24-february QAWG teleconference. The purpose of this session is to gather and clarify requirements for licenses, or at least to begin that process. Defining a policy and/or legal word-smithing are out-of-scope for this session. Anyone who has an interest in this, please speak to your company lawyers beforehand and come to the call ready to discuss your requirements and corresponding scenarios with respect to three issues, which Joseph has extracted from the email discussion to date: 1. warranties/liabilities: is there anything wrong specifically with the text in the software license? http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231 2. scope of use: why must scope be constrained, what abuse are we trying to prevent, how will the scope be defined and tested against? 3. redistribution: is there any requirement (scenarios?) where we need to prevent the test suite from being redistributed (e.g., distributed with a toolkit, or mirrored even) under the same license, of course, from which it was obtained from the W3C? These issues need to be considered in the context of the need to distinguish between the license under which you want to use a test suite versus contribute materials to a test suite. Sending email to the QAWG list beforehand would facilitate discussion. (Note that we can spend at most half of the telecon on this topic, as we have final pre-Boston outreach kit stuff to discuss as well.) Regards, -Lofton.
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