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

[James Walker]

On 5/11/07 6:30 PM, Eric Norman wrote:
> On May 11, 2007, at 1:46 PM, Christopher St John wrote:
> 
>> On 5/11/07, Josh Hoyt <josh at janrain.com> wrote:
>>> On 5/10/07, James Walker <walkah at walkah.net> wrote:
>>>> I'll close with this too - as someone who has implemented a lot of 
>>>> "open
>>>>  specs" in the past couple years - having multiple implementations in
>>>> the wild is actually a very good thing... I've found anyway. Helps 
>>>> make
>>>> sure we're reading and writing to the spec appropriately ...
>>> Sorry to single you out, James, but I'm tired of hearing this
>>> justification for *yet another* implementation.
>> I believe the implication was that multiple implementations made
>> the spec itself better, and helped solidify the interpretation of
>> ambiguities and identify holes.
> 
> +1
> 
> I heard James say that his interest was feedback for
> the spec authors.  When interoperability testing discovers
> something that doesn't work, the authors of the spec can
> wave them around and say "See here; you didn't read these".
> (This is a common phenomenon.  In some circles, it's called
> RFC wars).
> 
> But another thing they can do is ask themselves if perhaps
> the specs weren't written very well and then improve them.

OK - I just wanna clarify one thing before I drop out of this thread and
hopefully just let it die off as it should...

The /real/ reason for not using JanRain's libraries for the drupal
module is to get RP support in Drupal 6 (core) - which has requirements
and restrictions outside of my control (preferences aside).

Perhaps I should have left them out, but any thoughts I have on the
benefits (or downsides) of multiple implementations are really moot.
-- 
James Walker :: http://walkah.net/ :: xmpp:walkah at walkah.net