[OpenID board] Proposal for a resolution on Copyright of the specs.

Don Thibeau (OIDF ED) don at oidf.org
Wed Jul 21 23:51:45 UTC 2010


Will do

-----Original Message-----
From: Nat Sakimura [mailto:sakimura at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 7:05 PM
To: openid-board at lists.openid.net; Don Thibeau (OIDF ED)
Subject: Re: [OpenID board] Proposal for a resolution on Copyright of the
specs.

Don,

Is it possible to get a legal advice from our counsel?

=nat

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:59 AM, Nat Sakimura <sakimura at gmail.com> wrote:
> From what I understand, OWF agreement is akin to OIDF Contribution
Agreement.
> i.e., Contributor to OIDF agreement.
>
> What we are talking here is the licensing from OIDF to the rest of the
world.
>
> Also, while OWF agreement is attractive, it is hard to retrofit to the
existing
> specs. Once the OpenID Process is modified (requires membership vote),
> we can use OWF agreement for further WG works.
>
> =nat
>
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:38 AM, David Recordon <recordond at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> The IPR policy actually includes a copyright license for the
specifications.
>> The Foundation may have the right to CC license them, but I'd rather see
us
>> take advantage of the OWF work which specifically addresses licensing of
>> specifications.
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Nat Sakimura <sakimura at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>>
>>> I raised it a while ago, and since it was raised again today, let me
>>> propose this:
>>>
>>> BE IT RESOLVED that Creative Commons CC BY-SA copyright license to be
>>> applied on all the openid specifications and that the copyright notice
>>> to be shown on those documents.
>>>
>>> Perhaps we can make it a topic of today's board meeting. Otherwise, I
>>> propose to do the email vote.
>>>
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