Social Web WG first to adopt* new @W3C Software & Document license†! * http://www.w3.org/2013/socialweb/social-wg-charter#licensing The more liberal CC0+OWFa (Mozilla’s preferred standards licensing‡) is still better, however, the new W3C license is more permissive than the previous W3C Document license. The new W3C license more explicitly allows experimental improvements on W3C specifications, in particular outside W3C, including publishing publicly (with attribution), with the potential for reincorporation into W3C specs. It’s a big step forward, and hopefully experience with this more permissive license will help build confidence in the use of more permissive licenses in general, towards the goal of increasing use of CC0+OWFa for open standards. † http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software ‡ https://wiki.mozilla.org/Standards/license Related: • tantek.com/2015/150/t1/running-for-w3cab-again Previously: • tantek.com/2011/168/b1/practices-good-open-web-standards-development Aside: • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger_%28typography%29#Modern_usage

Social Web WG first to adopt* new @W3C Software & Document license†!

* http://www.w3.org/2013/socialweb/social-wg-charter#licensing

The more liberal CC0+OWFa (Mozilla’s preferred standards licensing‡) is still better, however, the new W3C license is more permissive than the previous W3C Document license.

The new W3C license more explicitly allows experimental improvements on W3C specifications, in particular outside W3C, including publishing publicly (with attribution), with the potential for reincorporation into W3C specs.

It’s a big step forward, and hopefully experience with this more permissive license will help build confidence in the use of more permissive licenses in general, towards the goal of increasing use of CC0+OWFa for open standards.

† http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software
‡ https://wiki.mozilla.org/Standards/license

Related:
• tantek.com/2015/150/t1/running-for-w3cab-again

Previously:
• tantek.com/2011/168/b1/practices-good-open-web-standards-development

Aside:
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger_%28typography%29#Modern_usage