Fwd: Licence of validation icons?

> [copying the QAIG list as it may be of interest there too]

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> 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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