--- In canvas-developers@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew" <triptych@...> wrote:
>
http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2007-March/010129.html
>
> It looks like Apple is claiming IP rights over the canvas
> specification. Does that mean that canvas is dead as an open spec?

No, it means the WHATWG (I'm a founding member) is not a legal entity
and has no patent policy, so Apple must reserve its IP rights until
the spec lands in the w3c, or the WHATWG grows a patent policy.

> What does this mean for the future of canvas and the WHAT group in
> general?

The WHATWG was always intended to generate specs in an open,
lightweight fashion and standardize them with de-jure wrappings
elsewhere. The hope is that the newly-rechartered HTML working group
in the w3c will do just that, without making gratuitous changes or
adding delay.

Thanks to competitive and moral pressure from the WHATWG and others,
the w3c is using an open process for the HTML WG. You can join as an
individual member and participate. I encourage anyone on this list who
cares about <canvas> being standardized expeditiously to do so. See

http://www.w3.org/2000/09/dbwg/details?group=40318&public=1

and other links under

http://www.w3.org/html/wg/

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