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• Subject: RE: New W3C Patent Practice
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 10:33:08 -0600

"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@s...]

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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