- From: Olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:27:48 +0900
- To: www-qa@w3.org
> [copying the QAIG list as it may be of interest there too] Begin forwarded message: > From: Olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org> > Date: Wed Feb 12, 2003 07:47:12 Asia/Tokyo > To: www-validator@w3.org > Subject: Re: Licence of validation icons? > > > For the record and further discussion (our policy expert answered the > original message directly). > [and copying the QAIG list as it may be of interest there too] > > On Monday, Feb 10, 2003, at 13:13 Asia/Tokyo, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: >> But what is the licence of those icons I get from your validators? >> Can I >> incorporate them to my WWW-pages that are under DSL or FDL or any >> other >> free documentation licence? > > The icons use is explained at: > http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/logo-usage-20000308#html-validator > > In particular, the icons are covered by: > http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/trademark-license-19990516 > > ... which basically means that in this case use of the icon is free, > copying and distributing os OK, modification is not allowed. > > One thing, however, that is still vague, is the "claim" issue. The > trademark policy has something about claims, but it doesn't really > cover conformance claims, which the "valid foo" icons basically are. > Conformance claims for documents are even more complicated than for > e.g software implementations, as the claim may be valid when made, and > "slip out" when the document changes. > > There may be technical solutions (like serving different icons > depending on actual validity), but the social (legal?) questions > remain. We (validator) could try and imitate what WAI has done at: > http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG1-Conformance > > Cheers. > > -- > Olivier >
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