What licensing obligations apply to second (and later) editions of a Recommendation?
W3C has defined a Process for revising Recommendations to fix broken links and invalid markup, make editorial clarifications, and make substantive corrections provided they introduce no new features. The process involves community review of a “Proposed Edited Recommendation” that is subsequently published as a new edition of the same Recommendation. Licensing commitments made to the original Recommendation will apply to new editions that result from this process. In the unlikely event that new features improperly creep in, there are procedures for challenging the document’s status. New features would not, in any case, be covered by the original licensing obligation.
