[OpenID] JanRain library licensing (was: Re: On OpenID 2.0)

[Recordon, David]

Building on what Chris said, there is no reason the full library would
have to be included with Drupal.  You could remove the storage mechanism
classes and such which are not needed, replace one which ties into the
Drupal system, and then only include that.  I'd imagine the JanRain guys
would be happy to help point you in the right direction for this as
well.

--David 

-----Original Message-----
From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On
Behalf Of Chris Messina
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 11:33 AM
To: Dries Buytaert
Cc: openid-general
Subject: Re: [OpenID] JanRain library licensing (was: Re: On OpenID 2.0)

That's fair. I wonder though if it might be possible to abstract parts
to simply reduce the amount of redundant OpenID code in the wild. If
that's not possible, that's fine -- but my interest is in having people
have a consistent and optimal OpenID experience -- no matter what
platform they're on. As long as the Drupal library/implementation stays
up on current best practices and behaviors, then there's no reason to
continue this discussion and push for Drupal to use the JanRain
libraries.

Chris

On 5/4/07, Dries Buytaert <dries at buytaert.net> wrote:
>
> On 03 May 2007, at 21:00, Chris Messina wrote:
> > Can you expand on what you didn't like. You're certainly fine to 
> > write your own, but we're openly wondering whether another PHP 
> > implementation really makes sense or if we can tweak the existing 
> > library to better fit your needs.
> >
> > If not, no problem.
>
> Well, last time we checked the OpenID library, it was big. If I 
> remember correctly, the OpenID library shipped with its own database 
> abstraction layer, its own input sanitizing, etc, etc.  A framework 
> like Drupal already provides all of that functionality and we didn't 
> want to duplicate that.  Our current open ID module is 10 KB rather 
> than 290 KB (in zipped format).  I think Drupal itself is 650 KB.
>
> --
> Dries Buytaert  ::  http://www.buytaert.net/
>
>


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