Re:HTML 5.2 Recommendation
by currysausage on Thursday December 14, 2017 @09:42AM
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Most of your points are addressed by Ian in an old email:
"In the case of the WHATWG specifications, the licenses allow broad re-use,
so that implementors can copy-and-paste text into their comment blocks, so
that tutorial writers can copy-and-paste text into their documentation, so
that experiments we haven't considered can spring up without inhibition,
and so that, if the WHATWG stops being a good steward (like the W3C
stopped being a good steward in the early 2000s), the next group of spec
editors doesn't have to start from scratch." (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2014Apr/0034...)
"In the case of the WHATWG specifications, the licenses allow broad re-use, so that implementors can copy-and-paste text into their comment blocks, so that tutorial writers can copy-and-paste text into their documentation, so that experiments we haven't considered can spring up without inhibition, and so that, if the WHATWG stops being a good steward (like the W3C stopped being a good steward in the early 2000s), the next group of spec editors doesn't have to start from scratch." (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2014Apr/0034...)