<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Agreed, The non-asserts only cover the openID specification.<div><br></div><div>On the other hand there are other redirect protocols LID, SAML, WS-Fed, OAuth etc.</div><div><br></div><div>There may or may not be someone who comes after you if you are infringing.</div><div><br></div><div>That is the advantage of sticking to a standard.</div><div><br></div><div>John B.<br><div><div>On 2010-07-22, at 8:57 PM, Chris Messina wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Melvin Carvalho <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:melvincarvalho@gmail.com">melvincarvalho@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><br>One final question:<br><br>Supposing someone were to make an authentication protocol, say, usable in the browser. Not using the OpenID brand, but perhaps sharing some philosophical ideas. <br>
<br>If this protocol were released under an open source license, would it be safe from OpenID contributor patents?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Again, IANAL and this is my interpretation of things, but unless you get a non-assert from the relevant patent holders (of *any* patented authentication protocols) you're on your own.</div>
<div><br></div><div>That is, if you infringed on patents held by OpenID contributors, it'd be up to you to receive a license (or equal non-assert) for the relevant IP that you've implemented in order to "be safe from OpenID contributor patents". </div>
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