From blasum@muc.de  Sun Aug 26 21:04:01 2001
From: blasum@muc.de (Holger Blasum)
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 22:04:01 +0200
Subject: [Patents] W3C: Public review of Patent Policy Framework Last Call
Message-ID: <20010826220401.A26231@avendo.de>

Hello All,

when browsing to the W3C page today (looking for the XLST spec), I ran into:

Public review of Patent Policy Framework Last Call draft (open for 
public comments till 30 Sep) on top of the main page news.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-patent-policy-20010816/

For a layman, it seems to be quite balanced, but I am wondering what 
"reasonable, non-discriminatory (RAND) licensing terms"
eventually mean for open-source software. 

On the positive side, this may teach lot about handling interoperability issues.

As with other WGs, since Aug 10, W3C has an archived public mailing list 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-patentpolicy-comment/2001Aug/thread.html
(so far it has only attracted spam). 
Subscription: <www-patentpolicy-comment-request@w3.org> 

(This would also be a good topic for an industry summit such as Bruce
Perens once called for http://www.perens.com/Articles/Patents.html, or 
has that already taken place?)

-- 
Holger Blasum <holger@blasum.net>
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