[legal] Copyright status of OpenID Specs text itself

[Simon Josefsson]

"Brian E. Lewis" <brian.lewis at cordance.net> writes:

> As I understand it, you are only seeking to translate the specs and related
> documents.  To my mind, this would be a significant benefit, and the GFDL
> would be ideal.  Unfortunately, we did not put that language in the
> documents.  
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> We can either see about getting you permission or amending the documents to
> include appropriate GFDL language.  

Placing the documents under a free license would be useful, so consider
this a +1 from me.

If the documents are not freely licensed, they cannot be included as
documentation in many free software projects.  That would be
unfortunate.

FYI, compare with the license used by the XMPP Standards Foundation:

http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/ipr-policy.shtml#legal

That license was chosen after discussing with the community about
licensing.

/Simon

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> From: legal-bounces at openid.net [mailto:legal-bounces at openid.net] On Behalf
> Of Nat Sakimura
> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 3:40 AM
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> Subject: [legal] Copyright status of OpenID Specs text itself
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> Hello. 
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> I am running a translation project of OpenID Specs and IPR documents. 
>
> To work on these document, I wanted to know what is the copyright status of
> those document. 
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> Are they GFDL or something? 
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> Regards, 
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> Nat Sakimura (=nat)
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