[OpenID] OpenID license

[Nathan]

Chris Messina wrote:
> 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?

Hi Chris,

Essentially, yes I'm afraid; and in all honestly, I'm surprised more 
people aren't blocked too.

 From my (non legal, just a web developer) standpoint, all I can see is 
a patent covenant, which to me is the same as having a group of people 
with loaded guns saying we won't fire if you don't - no offence of course.

I simply need what we're all used to with BSD, Apache, CC, GPL and 
similar license, a simple clear statement which let's us know what we 
can do with the code - it's the same thing that stops me using what 
appears to be an open source lib which doesn't have a license, we simply 
ask the developer what license it's released under, figure out if it's 
compatible then go from there.

Quite sure it would be in everybody's best interests if this was cleared 
up quickly with that 10 minute change.

as an aside: if this doesn't happen then I (along with many others I'm 
sure) would be looking to the answer to your aforementioned question 
'Any reason why we haven't taken 10 minutes to make that change?'

Many Regards and thanks for your follow up Chris,

Nathan