Hi Philippe, On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Philippe Le Hegaret <[email protected]> wrote: > [T]he W3C Members told us by an overwhelming majority (80%) is > that, when you are on the W3C Rec-track, they feel that the > specifications must not be forkable.
80% of the W3C Members, or 80% of those that remembered to vote? > We certainly understand and respect your opinion about the copyright > issue. Nonetheless, we would still be very disappointed if this > results in your not participating as an IE. We will certainly continue > to look for a common ground between the various communities. I cannot participate via the Invited Expert Agreement knowing that my creative input will end up tied to a single organisation rather than the whole world. The web is for everyone, its documentation should be too. > As a reminder, we created Community Groups, open forums without > fees, with a more open license (the W3C Community Contributor > License Agreement (CLA) [4])). It enables anyone to socialize > their ideas for the Web at the W3C for possible future > standardization. I have not taken the time to study agreements for Community Groups in detail (and have therefore not rejoined any thus far), but I believe it should be no problem for me to publish specifications using the FSA through the WHATCG in due course. Kind regards, -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
