Google is participating in the WebFonts Working Group and has thereby made the W3C Patent Policy RF commitment that flows from that participation. However, in section 8.2 of
the W3C Patent Policy, claims relating to referenced material are excluded from the RF commitment: “the implementation of technology developed elsewhere and merely
incorporated by reference in the body of the Recommendation”. It is anticipated that a Recommendation may issue from the WebFonts Working Group that, like the specification
here <http://www.w3.org/TR/WOFF2/>, includes a normative reference to a compression algorithm known as the Brotli Compression Algorithm, for which a version of the
specification is here: <http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-alakuijala-brotli-01.txt>. To negate the effect of that exclusion for the Brotli Compression Algorithm in work being
done in the WebFonts Working Group, Google hereby extends its RF commitment for the WebFonts Working Group in which it is participating as follows: if and when a
Recommendation is published from that working group that includes a normative reference to the Brotli Compression Algorithm, Google’s RF commitment extends as if the text of
that referenced specification of the Brotli Compression Algorithm had been directly included in the text of the W3C Recommendation. In addition, to facilitate the use of the
Brotli Compression Algorithm in other applications, Google hereby provides a W3C RF commitment (that is not limited to font data) to the Brotli Compression Algorithm
specification linked above and, if that specification leads to a final IETF RFC for Brotli, then to the specification in that RFC.
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