Hi Anne, thanks for your feedback. I will forward your question to team-legal for further discussion. But after over 2 years of discussion I think we have rather clear position now and I do not expect that to change soon. The "why" is explained in the document.
Best, Rigo On Tuesday 28 August 2012 11:11:15 Anne van Kesteren wrote: > Hi Rigo, > > I wanted to sign up to become an Invited Expert, but the Invited > Expert Agreement has this clause in the Copyright section: > > """The Invited Expert agrees to refrain from creating derivative > works that include the Invited Expert's contributions when those > derivative works are likely to cause confusion about the status > of the W3C work or create risks of non-interoperability with a > W3C Recommendation. «Branching» is one example of a > non-permissible derivative work.""" > http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2007/06-invited-expert.html#L1 > 18 > > Any chance this will change in the near future? > > To be perfectly clear: I am not willing to invest my own time in > writing specifications that cannot be forked. > > Kind regards,
