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This article could use some precision about exactly what rights they were giving up. Rights to the "World Wide Web" not so much. Specific copyrights and patent

This article could use some precision about exactly what rights they were giving up. Rights to the "World Wide Web" not so much. Specific copyrights and patent rights are something else. There could have been patents that were essential and might have put the World Wide Web as we know it in a deep freeze from the beginning.

vivegi 3y ago
It is there in the original CERN approval letter at the bottom of the article. CERN was relinquishing rights and putting into public domain the following three software artefacts and binaries. - W3 basic ("line-mode") client - W3 basic server - W3 library of common code