[legal] Comments on copyright license in the proposed IPR policy

[Mark Wahl]

Gabe Wachob wrote:

> I rather like the idea of one of the Creative Commons copyright licenses
> because it expresses the intent directly and we don't have to dicker with
> details. 
 >
> The Attribution-NonCommercial, seems is best appropriate, probably also with
> ShareAlike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ or
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ )

I would have thought that using a CC license other than "Attribution"
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) for an OpenID specification
might lead one to need to "dicker with the details" in order to make clear
why "use of this work for commercial purposes" or "build upon this work"
without "permission from the copyright holder" is forbidden for an entity
that wishes to, for example,
  implement an OpenID specification within commercial software, or
  extend OpenID with additional specifications/profiles for their community,
or the procedure by which such an entity would obtain permission from the
copyright holder(s) in order to obtain the rights to perform the above two
tasks.

Mark Wahl
Informed Control Inc.