[legal] Copyright status of OpenID Specs text itself

[Nat Sakimura]

Yes indeed. I suppose we need to make them freely available. XMPP Style
permission is nice and liberal but I am not sure of the implication when it
is applied to a translation project on wiki, since it looks it is possible
to make a partial translation of it and control it under the translator's
exclusive copyright. In case of GFDL it does not happen, because derivative
work is also covered by GFDL.

What would you think?

Nat Sakimura (=nat)

On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org>
wrote:

> "Brian E. Lewis" <brian.lewis at cordance.net> writes:
>
> > As I understand it, you are only seeking to translate the specs and
> related
> > documents.  To my mind, this would be a significant benefit, and the
> GFDL
> > would be ideal.  Unfortunately, we did not put that language in the
> > documents.
> >
> >
> >
> > We can either see about getting you permission or amending the documents
> to
> > include appropriate GFDL language.
>
> Placing the documents under a free license would be useful, so consider
> this a +1 from me.
>
> If the documents are not freely licensed, they cannot be included as
> documentation in many free software projects.  That would be
> unfortunate.
>
> FYI, compare with the license used by the XMPP Standards Foundation:
>
> http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/ipr-policy.shtml#legal
>
> That license was chosen after discussing with the community about
> licensing.
>
> /Simon
>
> >
> >
> > Brian E. Lewis, General Counsel
> >
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> > From: legal-bounces at openid.net [mailto:legal-bounces at openid.net] On
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> > Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 3:40 AM
> > To: legal at openid.net
> > Subject: [legal] Copyright status of OpenID Specs text itself
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello.
> >
> >
> >
> > I am running a translation project of OpenID Specs and IPR documents.
> >
> > To work on these document, I wanted to know what is the copyright status
> of
> > those document.
> >
> > Are they GFDL or something?
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
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