[OpenID] OpenID license

[Chris Messina]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Nathan <nathan at webr3.org> wrote:

>
>> Essentially the non-asserts are about protecting the creators of the
>> technology, and less about protecting the implementors. It's up to each
>> implementor to assess the legal situation with their own counsel (if it's
>> important to them) before writing a line of code. The contributors
>> obviously
>> can't do that for you, they can only assess their own legal situation and
>> act according to their interests.
>>
>
> well I can't afford to do that, nor do I have the time so doesn't really
> leave me much choice I guess :(


Most people can't afford this (including me, personally) and implement
anyway.

It's up to you, as I said, to determine your risk and proceed accordingly.

If you can't or won't implement OpenID because you're concerned about being
sued for patent infringement, consider how much patent litigation costs and
then weigh that against the likelihood that anyone would really go after
anyone worth less than 10s of millions of dollars for patent infringement.

Hell, if anyone is really worried about your implementation, you can always
go license the relevant patent(s).


>
>> Not today. Depends on the copyright license that applies. The default is
>> all
>> rights reserved, so until we specify otherwise, that's the doctrine that
>> applies.
>>
>
> okay, assuming that Apache License V2.0 is compatible given that janrain
> openid implementations are released under it, any word on CC
> Attribution-ShareAlike (for an implementation).
>

Copyright license on code is separate from patent licenses. Janrain
libraries could still infringe patents, but you could at least create
derivative works or fork the libraries thanks to the copyright license.

Just remember to keep those issues separate.

Chris


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