[whatwg] Removal of Ogg is *preposterous*

[Geoffrey Sneddon]

On 11 Dec 2007, at 13:36, Maik Merten wrote:

>
> The old wording was a SHOULD requirement. No MUST. If the big  
> players don't want to take the perceived risk (their decision)  
> they'd still be 100% within the spec. Thus I fail to see why there  
> was need for action.

There's a question within the W3C Process whether patents that are  
covered by a SHOULD via a reference are granted a RF license similarly  
to anything that MUST be implemented. Both Nokia and MS raised  
concerns about this relating to publishing the spec as a FPWD.


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