[OpenID] OpenID license

[Nat Sakimura]

Apparently, it is full3978. It is written in the spec XML.

Having said that, I prefer to have additional license such as CC.

Also note that all the wiki contents are  under GNU Free Documentation License.

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Nathan <nathan at webr3.org> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Thanks for the link, I actually checked that before I sent the mail
> yesterday, and I'm familiar with the patent non assert agreement.
>
> However, really, where's the license? I've tried looking everywhere and the
> best I can find is this thread from 2 years ago:
> http://groups.google.com/group/dataportability-public/browse_thread/thread/86a0351f525a53d9
> which explains things better, but still that thread ends with:
> 'It would take all of 10 minutes for the OpenID foundation to say "this
> spec is at-the-least copyright us and redistributable under the CC
> Share-Alike License" and drop that license onto the specs and on the
> site's IP policies page -- which I'm hoping they finally do.'
>
> He's right, it would take all of 10 minutes, certainly not 2 years - so
> where is the license - what's stopping this from happening? I *really* don't
> follow here.
>
> aside: on the intellectual property page you have 'These documents are
> listed below as well as available here.' But there's no list below and the
> 'here' link returns a 'You don't have permission to access /ipr/ on this
> server.'
>
> Best,
>
> Nathan
>
> David Recordon wrote:
>>
>> Hi Nathan, you can find the OpenID Foundation's IPR policy at
>> http://openid.net/intellectual-property/. All of the contributors to those
>> specifications signed non-assertion agreements.
>>
>> --David
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Nathan <nathan at webr3.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to find what license the following spec's are released under:
>>>
>>> OpenID Authentication 2.0
>>> OpenID Attribute Exchange 1.0
>>> OpenID Provider Authentication Policy Extension 1.0
>>> OpenID Authentication 1.1
>>> OpenID Simple Registration Extension 1.0
>>>
>>> I've searched them all for any mention of license, patent, royalty and
>>> similar and found nothing at all?
>>>
>>> Are the spec's and technologies all completely public domain, if not
>>> which
>>> license(s) are they covered by?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> Nathan
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>>
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