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"This current practice has evolved in order to satisfy the goal held by a number of W3C Members and significant parts of the larger Web community: that W3C Recommendations should be, as far as possible, implementable on a Royalty-Free basis [AC]. The current practice described here seeks to
establish Royalty-Free implementation as a goal for Recommendations produced by new and re-chartered Working Groups;
encourage maximum disclosure of patents that might prevent a W3C Recommendation from being implemented on a Royalty-Free basis;
provide a process for addressing situations in which the goal of Royalty-Free implementation may not be attainable. "
That works for me, except XML-Dev isn't in the list of acknowledged contributors. :-)
len
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Robie [mailto:jonathan.robie@softwareag.com]
Has anyone seen this?
Current Patent Practice
W3C Note 24 January 2002
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/NOTE-patent-practice-20020124
This is the new W3C Patent Practice, and it looks like it was written by
the XML Dev mailing list - it has a very strong preference for Royalty Free
and disclosure of patents.
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