Perhaps I've misunderstood, but that does not seem comparable. * You decided when the spec should be frozen. You're asking Flickr to give away control over the

Perhaps I've misunderstood, but that does not seem comparable. * You decided when the spec should be frozen. You're asking Flickr to give away control over their specs. * Freezing a spec incurs no ongoing cost to you. You're asking Flickr to maintain current services indefinitely. A comparable situation would be to put Userland under the control of some external entity, which had the right to impose obligations on you to (for instance) keep the data available in current formats forever.