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

[Dick Hardt]

On 12-May-07, at 2:12 PM, Chris Messina wrote:

> On 5/12/07, James Walker <walkah at walkah.net> wrote:
>
>> 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).
>
> If it's of interest to the group, could yo enumerate what those
> requirements and restrictions are? We can move beyond the effort to
> convince you otherwise, but it would be good to close this thread with
> a set of practical limitations that you're confronting that make it
> impossible for using the existing libraries.

I think James already stated them. Drupal coding style. That  
community has their way of doing things. Their choice and who are we  
to say how they should write their code?

Personally I think it is "good" for there to be several  
implementations *if* the developers work together to make sure that  
the implementations interoperate.

-- Dick