[CONTRIBUTING]: how to make a "non-member patent licensing commitment"?

[SamB]

Well, I'm a bit confused by this passage:

csswg-drafts/CONTRIBUTING.md

Lines 12 to 13 in f2e3f00

	To make substantive contributions to specifications, you must either participate
	in the relevant W3C Working Group or make a non-member patent licensing commitment.

I tried following the W3C Patent Policy link just above that, but while they do define the term licensing commitment in https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20200915/##spec-licensing-commitments, the definition is a bit on the declarative side: it doesn't say anything about how to adequately record having made such a commitment.

[That's not why I was looking at the CONTRIBUTING file, though: I was actually hoping for information on how to preview edits without doing a PR.]

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• please tag the issue title with the spec's shortname, like [css-foo]

Well, CONTRIBUTING isn't a spec, but I didn't just make it up either.

[frivoal]

@wseltzer, can you help clarify the above?

[svgeesus]

If someone makes a PR and they are not IE and not from a W3C Member who is part of the relevant WG then the IPR check will fail and the staff contact gets a link to ask them to make that commitment, which is an autogenerated email with the name of the specification and the number of the PR.

[svgeesus]

I was actually hoping for information on how to preview edits without doing a PR

You check out this repo, then install Bikeshed, then make your edits to the .bs file, then run Bikeshed to convert .bs to .html and look at the result in a browser.