Policy Change: Field of Web Technologies definition and copyright license

[foolip]

IPR policy change, consult your legal team. These changes come into effect on May 18. 45 days notice is hereby given.

The WHATWG IPR policy is being updated. There are two pending changes:

• "Field of Web Technologies" and "Work in the Field of Web Technologies" are defined.
• For purposes of implementing a WHATWG Living Standard or Review Draft, WHATWG releases portions of the Living Standard, Review Draft or documents referenced therein under the BSD 3-Clause license for incorporation into software.

Please refer to the associated pull request for details.

This will resolve #67.

[othermaciej]

I support this change.

[foolip]

A checklist of what needs updating to fully resolve this:

• merge the policy changes
  • first update Workstream Policy.md and LICENSE with the new license wording
• Update LICENSE.template in spec-factory
• update https://github.com/whatwg/participate.whatwg.org/blob/master/views/agreement.hbs
• update Bikeshed's WHATWG templates

Most of these were identified by @annevk in #115 (comment). Thanks!

[foolip]

I've cloned and grepped for "Apple, Google, Mozilla, Microsoft" across all repos in the whatwg org to see if there are any additional places missing, but I don't think there is.

[foolip]

I've had a look at https://help.github.com/en/github/creating-cloning-and-archiving-repositories/licensing-a-repository#detecting-a-license and the documentation of https://github.com/licensee/licensee to see if it's possible to have our licenses still be automatically detected. Multiple licenses appears to be unsupported by the tooling, and I've also failed to make it work with both two files (LICENSE.BSD + LICENSE.CC-BY) and a single LICENSE file with two blocks.

However, the consequence of this is not very serious, if we go with a single LICENSE file then GitHub will still link to it, just with the text "View license" instead of "CC-BY-4.0" as currently.

[foolip]

This issue is going to be held up a bit to get legal input on the notice wording in #115. However, in the meantime we can prepare the pull requests for all the places that need updating, and sync wording it it changes.

[othermaciej]

The Field of Web Technologies portion of this has landed and is now in effect. Still reviewing the copyright license portion.

[foolip]

The new definitions are here:
https://whatwg.org/ipr-policy#210-field-of-web-technologies
https://whatwg.org/ipr-policy#2101-work-in-the-field-of-web-technologies

[foolip]

It's long overdue to close this. The Field of Web Technologies change was applied, and the licensing change was carried over to #155.