- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:47:14 -0500
- To: Peter Moulder <peter.moulder@monash.edu>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 08:57 -0800, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Peter Moulder <peter.moulder@monash.edu> wrote: > I recommend taking this up with W3C's legal staff if you think there > really is a problem, as the members of this group cannot realistically > answer any legal questions about W3C's copyright. I believe team-legal at w3.org would get you there. I think in general we (W3C) distinguish between implementing a specification and translating it. It's OK to implement a spec - you are not "translating it into C" because your goal there isn't that programmers would read the C code and marvel at it, but rather that you would make a running program that implements the ideas in the specification. It is for this reason that we have a different license for the test suites, which generally contain running code. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml Co-author, 5th edition of "Beginning XML", Wrox, 2012
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