Re: Definition of the Public Web

One area where I wished public web be defined is for licenses.

I know would make authors I met more confident to accept to go open-content is if there was a license that would require that further distribution of the material is in the public web and is, thus, visible from that original author, and probably from search engines.

This would remove this fear of authors' that keep saying "but they're going to do all sort of crazy things with my work I will have not way of knowing it happens".
(I know, this is not a full protection)

Paul




On 27 juin 2013, at 19:01, John Kemp wrote:

>> Might it be useful for this group to attempt to define what is meant by the term "public Web?" It's a term I think gets thrown around a lot but it seems to not have a formal definition. And if this group is going to try to focus its attention on the public Web then maybe we would benefit from having a shared definition of this term?
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> I would worry that it would then be possible for people to say "oh, my stuff is on the _public_ web as defined by W3C, but _their_ stuff, over there, is private", and I don't think that would be very helpful, given that the web has been successfully defined by inclusivity. 
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> Shouldn't web technologies continue to be inclusive, irrespective of where they are used?