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Rich,
You are correct - I misspoke here. All of the standards promoted by
the W3C are licenses, not patents, though the standards do go through
a patent-like process of discovery to insure that patents are not
being violated.
-- Kurt
On 6/6/05, Rich Salz <rsalz@datapower.com> wrote:
> > This is done by the W3C all the time when
> > they are attempting to insure that the patents that they are filing do
> > not infringe existing patents.
>
> This sentence seems wrong on several fronts.
>
> I didn't think that W3C filed for patents. A quick search didn't turn
> up any with "world wide web consortium" in either the inventor or assignee
> fields, and no Berners-Lee (at least not Tim) either.
>
> It is perfectly legitimate to file a patent that builds on another patent,
> such that if you actually wanted to build "B" you must get a license
> for "A." That's not infringement.
>
> W3C requires patent disclosures. This is so that implementors of
> their standards are not "surprised" when the parties who participated in
> the creation of those standards have patents that would have to be
> licensed if you wanted to do the implementation. (Cf RAMBUS :)
>
> /r$
>
> --
> Rich Salz Chief Security Architect
> DataPower Technology http://www.datapower.com
> XS40 XML Security Gateway http://www.datapower.com/products/xs40.html
>
>
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Kurt Cagle
http://www.understandingxml.com
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