Do participants in a Working Group under the W3C Patent Policy have licensing obligations for all Working Drafts produced by the group?
Participants in a Working Group under the W3C Patent Policy have licensing obligations for a Working Draft published by the group unless any of the following is true: • W3C terminates the work before the Working Draft becomes a Recommendation (e.g., the Working Group closes before completing work). In this case, Participants are released from their licensing obligations. When work terminates prior to Recommendation, W3C should publish this work as a Working Group Note. • the Working Group charter states that the deliverable is not intended to become a W3C Recommendation (as is done for requirements documents, for example). If for any reason W3C decides that the work should indeed advance to Recommendation, licensing obligations will take effect and there will be an exclusion opportunity for Working Group Participants; the currently available draft will be treated as a First Public Working Draft under the W3C Patent Policy. • the Working Group charter or Working Draft itself states that
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