[OpenID] Opened IPR Policy Draft

[David Nicol]

On 12/12/06, James A. Donald <jamesd at echeque.com> wrote:
> Changes and enhancements to the openID standard are
> patentable.  When the standard was originally proposed,
> it was far from clear that it would be widely adopted,
> so it is unlikely that anyone patented it in time, so
> the original standard is safe from IP.

What a headache.  Let's get whoever makes the best reference
implementation to release it MPL.  Mozilla PL has viral patent grant
language in it while explicitly allowing MPLd code to be included
in "Larger Projects."  (not sure about the viral nature of the patent
grant language; if we want a viral patent grant we might have to
create the OIDPL or something)



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