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Commit by Baidu, Inc employee to the HTML Standard #82

Closed annevk closed 5 years ago

annevk commented 6 years ago

I accidentally approved @harttle's https://github.com/whatwg/html/commit/3876e4b75cd9f9b048779a70831027c6e9c61813 not realizing they work for Baidu, Inc despite that being clearly advertised.

I think there's two questions here.

One for @harttle: could you get Baidu, Inc to sign https://participate.whatwg.org/agreement as an Entity?

One for the SG: what I should do with the above commit (this relates to #63)?

harttle commented 6 years ago

could you get Baidu, Inc to sign https://participate.whatwg.org/agreement as an Entity?

OK. I'm working on it. Though I do not care about this, why "those who work in the field of web technologies as an employee" must have that Agreement executed by a representative of that Entity?

annevk commented 6 years ago

@harttle in a word, patents. https://whatwg.org/ipr-policy has more details. Hope that helps and sorry for not communicating this clearly at the time you made the PR.

othermaciej commented 5 years ago

I'll get other SG members to weigh in, but in the meantime, my personal opinion is that the right action would be to revert until/unless the Entity agreement is executed.

harttle commented 5 years ago

until/unless the Entity agreement is executed.

Update: We're working on it these days and it will work out soon.

harttle commented 5 years ago

It's done, added me and @errorrik as contacts. See https://github.com/whatwg/participant-data/commit/a81535c39fd898f9a494cc08ead48d2fd8c946d4

othermaciej commented 5 years ago

There's no IPR issue with the commit now, so I think no SG action or decision is necessary.

domenic commented 5 years ago

Yay, thank you @harttle for pursuing this!!

harttle commented 5 years ago

@domenic you helped me out the first commit, this is actually the second one. Thank you guys!