W3C License Poll
The W3C HTML Working Group recently had a preference poll on which license should be used for the HTML specification. As directed, the W3C PSIG prepared three non-forkable license options. Additionally, Mozilla provided two forkable license options.
For better or worse, the W3C is a member organization. I’ve broken out the results by affiliation.
What stands out most to me is that for each of the five licenses presented we have representatives from five W3C member companies that were willing to say that they could not live with that choice. Only two options, namely Option 3 and MIT, did a slim majority of member organizations not have a single member who could not live with that choice.
For individuals who are not directly associated with a member organization, the results are much clearer: fork-able license are preferred, and among the license choices presented, MIT is the preference.