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World Wide Web Consortium approves patent policy
The W3C has announced the final approval of its patent policy, which states that patented technology included in W3C standards must be licensed on a royalty-free basis - at least for the purpose of implementing the standard.
This long process has finally reached its conclusion.
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World Wide Web Consortium approves patent policy Posted May 22, 2003 9:13 UTC (Thu) by angdraug (subscriber, #7487) [Link] It is unfortunate that FSF position wasn't taken into account. With this policy, any free software implementing a patent-encumbered W3C standard will not be able to satisfy the DFSG 6, and will automatically fall into a semi-non-free limbo except in cases when patent holder would go beyond W3C patent policy requirements and grant royalty-free license to all fields of endeavor.
World Wide Web Consortium approves patent policy Posted May 22, 2003 15:13 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] They did hear and review the FSF position but they rejected it.Many people lended the voices to the FSF side but they were not listened A company the size of M$ claiming that a non-profit + volunteers are There is more left to fight, there'll be another battle in a few years. We'll win that one. Ciaran O'Riordan
World Wide Web Consortium approves patent policy Posted May 22, 2003 12:05 UTC (Thu) by cpm (guest, #3554) [Link] No good will come from this.Which is to say, Nothing that comes from this will be good. It will all be bad. The only possible good that can come from this would if the computing world looks back on this in a few years and says "Gee I really wish we had not let this happen."
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