The Open Web Foundation has announced the launch of an Open Web Foundation Agreement, which is a charter that can be signed by agencies contributing specifications to the open web. "Specifications made available under the Open Web Foundation Agreement may include everything from small ad-hoc formats sketched out among friends to large multi-corporation collaborations that ultimately grow into international recognized standards with the help of formal standards setting organizations." There is a guide and a plain-language deed. The agreement is very similar to a BSD license - you are licensed to use copyright and patents "to make, use, sell, offer for sale, import, or distribute any implementation of the covered specification," and you can create your own revision of the specification. A number of specifications have already been contributed under the agreement from Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! Additional content from David Rudin, Eran Hammer-Lahav, David Recordon, Scott Wilson, Steve Repetti, and the Open Web Foundation Google Group.
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