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

[Jonathan Daugherty]

# Recently, a client needed an OpenID server. They were using
# Erlang. No JanRain for me, so I wrote an OpenID 1.1 server. How does
# depending on a single family of excellent libraries help when they
# aren't available in the target platform?

This is a straw man.  Of *course* you can't depend on a library that
doesn't exist.  So, sure, you either write one for your platform of
choice or change your platform.  Come on.

# +1 - it was very useful to run against the JanRain acceptance tests
# but I believe they could be a little more thorough.

For the record, we did put some time into writing those and haven't
given up on updating and improving them; however, we'd *love* to get
helpers because there are a lot of other things we have to do.

# But on a parting note: the poor, poor JanRain people. They had to
# code in PHP (the horrors!) and then they say the code isn't wanted?

Did we say that?

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