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

[Jonathan Daugherty]

# Good grief, chill out guys, people wanting to implement the spec is
# a _good_ thing, it means OpenID is winning...

And we need to remember that there are two different kinds of winning:
the technology wins in terms of industry and developer acceptance, and
the technology wins in terms of *user* acceptance.

Having lots of implementations may imply that there is winning of the
former sort (again, forgetting ethics of re-use), but when things
don't work half the time, that's not winning with users, so we have to
have some balance.  A clean-room implementation *is* good for the spec
and the internal discourse on the technology.  Scaring users away from
an RP because it runs a broken or buggy fly-by-night implementation is
*not* good.

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  Jonathan Daugherty
  JanRain, Inc.
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