On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Levantovsky, Vladimir < Vladimir.Levantovsky@monotypeimaging.com> wrote: > I am not sure what you mean by field-of-use restriction. The item 3 > of W3C RF licensing requirements( > http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#def-RF) clearly > states that the license may be limited to implementations of the > Recommendation. The browser implementation would obviously qualify as an > implementation of this (future) recommendation. > Yes. But David pointed out that that's insufficient for the open-source licensing of two major browser engines. It's not enough that we be able to use the method ourselves; we promise to our downstream users, via the GPL or LGPL, that they can take our code and use it in various ways, including for non-browser projects. So if Monotype insists on a field-of-use restriction, it may become a W3C standard, but we still won't be able to implement it. Rob -- "He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all." [Isaiah 53:5-6]
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