W3C

Can you help? What does "excluded" mean in w3.org's discussions of patents? Does it mean the patent holder has refused to give an acceptable licence for the "excluded" claims?

External links

w3.org pages

• W3C Patent Policy (and see the subsection defining "royalty-free")
• Investigation into a patent potentially blocking their Widgets Updating standard, regarding Apple's patent
• W3C Patents and Standards Interest Group

Third-party pages

• Article about how Ogg Theora complies with W3C's patent policy, by Harvey Anderson, VP and General Counsel of Mozilla Corporation (see: Ogg Theora)
• W3C to allow royalty-burdened standards, 10 Oct 2001, FFII
• Software Patents: W3C Standards (Part 7), by Erik J Heels