Ashvil wrote: > http://www.openphd.net/W3C_Patent_Policy/ > > http://www.w3.org/TR/patent-policy/ > > What this means is that the W3C can create a recommendation that becomes > a defato web standard and any implementation will/may have to pay > royalties.
well, technically, yes. but i seriously doubt they would ever charge fees to use their standards. what they are doing here is trying to resolve any IP disputs that have/could pop up. disputs such as "if Apple contributes to a w3c spec, who owns that IP? Apple, or the w3c?". i am not familiar with the workings of thr w3c, but i imagine this is a result of some trouble in the past where a corporation contributor has tried to claim IP on part of a w3c standard they helped to create. so i don't think this is the w3c trying to get licensing fees, but rather them trying to stop it. one of my fav. websites explains it: http://www.winterspeak.com/ > > Should the Jabber specifications and any derived work be placed in a > 'Patent Free Zone' OR do folks believe that Patents are the foundation > of our IP (Intellectual Property) industry. well, my personal belief is very pro-IP. i see Patents as overall a good thing, although need to be rationalized out again in the courts. but, on the matter of jabber: jabber itself, patent free, of course. but technologies that use jabber, such as middleware components, etc... could be patented, i think... nothing stopping them as long as they don't try to claim jabber protocol itself. -- /\ Adam Theo, Age 22, Tallahassee FL USA. //\\ Theoretic Solutions (http://www.theoretic.com) //--\\ "Activism, Software, and Internet Services". || Personal Homepage (http://www.theoretic.com/adamtheo). || Jabber Platform (http://www.jabber.org). Birthright Online (http://www.birthright.net). Email & Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: AdamTheo2000 ICQ: 3617306 Y!: AdamTheo2 "A patriotic American progressive buddhist with free-market socialist views" _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
