[OpenID] OpenID license

[Chris Messina]

It seems worth clarifying this situation -- if only because I was personally surprised to not see a clear license on the docs themselves (copyright, specifically). 

Any reason why we haven't taken 10 minutes to make that change?

Nathan -- are you blocked by not having a clear [copyright] license on the specs?

Chris

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On Jul 21, 2010, at 9:11 AM, Nat Sakimura <sakimura at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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