[OpenID] Opened IPR Policy Draft

[Gabe Wachob]

That is interesting, but OpenID is not a software project - it's a
specification project. And FSF is all about GPL and this group isn't
producing a spec that shall only be implementable with a GPL license. 

If we were a code writing project, perhaps something like this would be
helpful. 

As for patenting its own work - that's an interesting angle, but it wouldn't
replace all the licensing and disclosure rules that we should have. Having
ownership of a patent doesn't automatically create a license to practice
everything claimed in other implicated patents. It may create some leverage
in negotiating a licensing deal but that's something of a mess for an open
standard, in all likelihood. 

	-Gabe

> -----Original Message-----
> From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On
> Behalf Of zwiskle
> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 3:30 AM
> To: general at openid.net
> Subject: Re: [OpenID] Opened IPR Policy Draft
> 
> Am Sonntag, den 10.12.2006, 21:35 +1100 schrieb Gavin Baumanis:
> > With various "commercial" companies having a "finger in the pie" I 'm
> > not at all sure how it would work / if it could work - but none the
> > less;
> >
> > It sounds to me like we need the OpenID community to patent it's own
> > work so as to protect it from such outside patent claims? (whether
> > they be scrupulous or somehow genuine)
> >
> Hi,
> 
> just as a small note:
> Have you read about this ?
> http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2006q4/000161.html
> 
> It's about FSFe giving legal gurdian to a project.
> 
> mfg
> .klemens
> 
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