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Updated spec for TTWG publication#547

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@himorin himorin commented Apr 24, 2026

Need to have boilerplate PR (speced/bikeshed-boilerplate#197 ) merged before landing.


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If you are not the sole contributor to a contribution (pull request), please identify all
If you are not the sole contributor to a contribution (pull request), please identify all
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there's a lot of whitespace changes below here that don't seem necessary

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ah, these are due to override with copy and paste from other TTWG repository...
will try to revert.

Comment thread LICENSE.md
License](http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2015/copyright-software-and-document). Contributions to
Specifications are made under the [W3C CLA](https://www.w3.org/community/about/agreements/cla/).

All documents in this Repository are licensed by contributors under the [W3C Document License](http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-documents).
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Does this mean a licensing change? Is this required?

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For a long time we have deliberately used different licences for WebVTT vs the TTML-based specifications. We haven't decided to change that recently.

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actually, situation is quite messy

  • CLA itself cannot be applied to TTWG, since it's dedicated to CG only
  • the latest WebVTT /TR/ publication uses document license, but not software and document license, so I have definitely no idea why 2019 edition was published using document license neither why latter was used for this LICENSE.md file

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himorin commented May 14, 2026

@gkatsev @nigelmegitt how about LICENSE? I have no position, and if there is some record of change from 2019 publication "Copyright © 2019 W3C® (MIT, ERCIM, Keio, Beihang). W3C liability, trademark and document use rules apply." to permissive software and document license, I'll change it with leaving record here.

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