Cc-groups

This page describes how to make it easier to manage those CGs where patent licenses are irrelevant to the group's mission. See CG 2013 changes.

The problem

Some groups do not require patent commitments.
Requiring people to make patent commitments where they are unnecessary adds unnecessary friction to the system.
Therefore we wish to enable people to create copyright-only groups (no patent commitment required). Those groups will not create specifications.
In addition, we can simplify our system by replacing the current FSA and CLA copyright provisions with an existing license (e.g., the W3C software and document license or CC-BY).

We need to update the CLA and FSA to change section to to incorporate a new license (e.g., W3C software and document license or CC-BY). Check with legal team on best way to do that.
We need to update the process as well to indicate the copyright-only option
We need versions of deeds that are copyright-only
We need to update summary
We need to keep around dated versions of legal agreements (and with date it was superseded, cross-links to latest version).

Create CG/BG pages will include UI (e.g., checkbox) to request creation of a copyright-only group. The checkbox will make clear that copyright-only groups do not get patent commitments from participants and must not create specifications.
In our database, we will need a bit that indicates that a CG/BG is copyright-only

Because we do not require patent commitments, we will not pursue organizational commitments.
For CGs, join/leave semantics will be the same as for other group type, but any request to join as an individual will be granted automatically
For BGs, join/eave semantics will be the same as for other group type.
Carine has indicated that we won't need IPP for joins because we don't need to record patent commitments. However, we will still need much of the IPP functionality, including:
- Same join semantics (e.g., AC Rep role for Members)
- UI for joining (like other type of CGs but legal commitment is different)
- Notifications and email record of commitments
- Registration in DBWG

On participants page we will simply list name/affiliation.
On group home page we will need to indicate which agreements participants have accepted

We should not provide any UI to Chairs to publish Specifications
Reports published by copyright-only groups will need proper link to "licensing info"
The reports home page will need to list all the available options
Reports requirements will need to include copyright-only options

Some groups operate copyright-only today; Ian maintains that list manually. We will convert these groups to be "formal" copyright-only groups.
We do not plan to support mode-switching at this time (until there is sufficient demand for it).