OpenID IPR Policy Draft

[Hallam-Baker, Phillip]

Why not just take the W3C IPR policy verbatim and change the organization name?
 
The W3C patent policy is I believe released under creative commons for precisely this reason if not this can easily happen. The agreement was subscribed to by all the major vendors and the major open source groups.
 
Unless someone wants to incorporate proprietary technology that they are not willing to release the rights to as required by the W3C terms this is a debate we don't need to have.
 
 
Ideally the Apache, Mozilla, OASIS, W3C and IETF IPR WGs would get together and devise an industry standard acceptable to both Open Source and proprietary vendors. The introduction of suspense licenses means that it is not unthinkable that they would reach a common set of terms.

 

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	From: specs-bounces at openid.net [mailto:specs-bounces at openid.net] On Behalf Of Gabe Wachob
	Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 1:01 PM
	To: 'Brett McDowell'; Recordon, David
	Cc: specs at openid.net; general at openid.net
	Subject: RE: OpenID IPR Policy Draft
	
	

	Brett-

	            We need to get consensus on what the community wants before we take this to an attorney.. However, I've done these sorts of IPR policies for standards efforts several times and I can tell you that the process of working through these IPR policies is slow, painful and expensive. I think presenting an "already baked" (ie already drafted by lawyers) IPR policy to this community and asking for a up/down vote is not in keeping with the spirit of this development process. 

	            -Gabe

	 

	
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	From: specs-bounces at openid.net [mailto:specs-bounces at openid.net] On Behalf Of Brett McDowell
	Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 6:48 AM
	To: Recordon, David
	Cc: specs at openid.net; general at openid.net
	Subject: Re: OpenID IPR Policy Draft

	 

	This is normally lawyer work.  I recommend the companies & individuals invested in OpenID immediately turn this exercise over to your legal counsel to ensure your interests--and the interests of the community--are protected appropriately. 
	
	Does the new OpenID organization have legal counsel retained (I don't mean volunteers, but actually hired)?  If not, that would be my second recommendation.
	
	--Brett

	On 12/6/06, Recordon, David <drecordon at verisign.com> wrote:

	Hey guys,
	Been working with Gabe, and others, on starting to draft an IPR Policy
	for OpenID specifications.  We'd appreciate feedback in terms of if what
	is written captures the correct intent of the community?  We realize the 
	language isn't technically as tight as it needs to be, though first want
	to make sure it is saying the right thing.  It is largely based on the
	IPR Policy for Microformats.
	
	http://openid.net/wiki/index.php/IPR_Policy
	
	Thanks,
	--David
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