[License-review] Request for approval of the updated W3C Software license

[Rigo Wenning]

Hello,

W3C has registered its Software Notice and License with OSI. OSI 
approved the 2015 version of the license on November 29, 2017.

https://opensource.org/license/w3c

On 2023-01-01, W3C changed its underlying structure and legal status. 
This affects the wording of the license registered with OSI.

W3C updated the 2015 Software license with the necessary legal 
information and created the 2023 Software license.

The main change is in the copyright notice. There is no change in the 
legal text, except for the attribution to the new legal entity moving 
from W3C hosts to the new W3C legal entity.

The new license can be seen online here:

https://www.w3.org/copyright/software-license-2023/

and attached as text version.

Asserting that, like the 2015 version, the 2023 version of the W3C 
Software license continues to comply with the Open Source Definition. 
Especially it continues to comply OSD principle 3 by allowing for 
derivative works, principle 5 and 6 by avoiding all discriminations and 
principle 9 as it does not affect combinability.

W3C therefore humbly requests the approval of the 2023 version of the 
W3C Software license by OSI and the update of the license stored in

https://opensource.org/license/w3c

Yours sincerely

  --
  Rechtsanwalt Rigo Wenning
  ERCIM/W3C Legal counsel

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Software and Document license - 2023 version

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