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CSS used by W3C specs (this repo is not about the w3.org/TR index page)
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Shift Legal Boilerplate out of SOTD #221

Open fantasai opened 3 years ago

fantasai commented 3 years ago

A large chunk of the Status of this Document is legal stuff that nobody needs to read most of the time:

This document is governed by the 15 September 2020 W3C Process Document.

This document was produced by a group operating under the W3C Patent Policy. W3C maintains a public list of any patent disclosures made in connection with the deliverables of the group; that page also includes instructions for disclosing a patent. An individual who has actual knowledge of a patent which the individual believes contains Essential Claim(s) must disclose the information in accordance with section 6 of the W3C Patent Policy.

It would be nice to reduce the amount of boilerplate that is used neither by the practiced spec reader nor by the person new to reading W3C specs. Not all this stuff can be removed, but maybe we can at least move it out of SOTD!

(Note there's also the copyright statement, which is also IPR-related, and might be considered together.)

Possible ideas: Move all of these to a “Process and Legal” (or “Process, Patents, and Copyright”?) section separate from SOTD and

@wseltzer What are our options here? :)

plehegar commented 3 years ago

See https://w3c.github.io/tr-design/p2021mockup/

The wording for Notes and Registries has been reduced but we need to go further.

wseltzer commented 3 years ago

For REC-track documents, the patent disclosure request is important to have visible and prominent, since it's a trigger for Patent Policy obligations supporting the royalty-free policy. (Sorry!)

fantasai commented 3 years ago

@wseltzer But now that we've update the Patent Policy, we should be able to put it in a dedicated section instead of in SOTD, right? :) I think the difficult question is what to call that section.