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# Web Media Text Tracks Community Group
# Contributor License Agreement

This repository is being used for work in the Web Media Text Tracks Community Group, governed by the [W3C Community License
Agreement (CLA)](http://www.w3.org/community/about/agreements/cla/). To contribute, you must join
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I disagree with removing the CLA and CG reference. It encourages people that cannot join the W3C to participate.

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As a W3C specification on the REC track, I do not see why WebVTT should be subject to a CLA different than other W3C specifications on the REC track. The CG can create a separate repo if it wants to work on something other then the specification on the REC track.

the CG.
Contributions to this repository are intended to become part of Recommendation-track documents governed by the W3C Patent Policy and Document License. To contribute, you must either participate in the [Timed Text Working Group](https://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/TT/) or make a non-member patent licensing commitment.
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You don't have to participate in the TTWG to make a contribution and the CLA above already makes a non-member patent licensing commitment.

There is far less legal conflict between the way that the CG works and the way the WGs work than you think. I disagree with making this a TTWG-only repository.

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You don't have to participate in the TTWG to make a contribution and the CLA above already makes a non-member patent licensing commitment.

The same is true for IMSC: anyone can make a contribution, bound to the W3C CLA.


If you are not the sole contributor to a contribution (pull request), please identify all
contributors in the pull request's body or in subsequent comments.
If you are not the sole contributor to a contribution (pull request), please identify all contributors in the pull request's body or in subsequent comments.

To add a contributor (other than yourself, that's automatic), mark them one per line as follows:

```
+@github_username
```

If you added a contributor by mistake, you can remove them in a comment with:

```
-@github_username
```

If you are making a pull request on behalf of someone else but you had no part in designing the
feature, you can remove yourself with the above syntax.
If you are making a pull request on behalf of someone else but you had no part in designing the feature, you can remove yourself with the above syntax.

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All Reports in this Repository are licensed by Contributors under the
[W3C Software and Document
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/).

License](http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2015/copyright-software-and-document).