On 9/28/2012 10:58 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
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.
Anne, I respect your pov, but I am also disappointed that you feel you
cannot participate.
You are a vital contributor to W3C and part of my responsibility is to
ensure that people like you can continue to contribute despite obstacles.
I would like to meet with you personally to discuss. Will you be at
TPAC? If so, I'd like to meet with you there. If not, would you allow
me to visit you in Amsterdam either the week before or the week after TPAC?
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,
