OpenID Intellectual Property Policy Approved
Its taken us months of effort but I’m happy to announce that the OpenID Foundation has finalized its intellectual property policy and process. During the 12/13/2007 OpenID Foundation board meeting, we approved the IP policy and process documents.
The gist of this means that we have a process in place that will help the OpenID community to continue to thrive in its efforts. The intellectual property policy helps define how and who can contribute to the project as well as laying out ways to protect those that use the technology.
Huge thanks go out to everyone involved (in no particular order): David Recordon, Bill Washburn, Mike Jones, Kim Cameron, David Daggett, Dick Hardt, Johannes Ernst, Gabe Wachob, Drummond Reed, Martin Atkins and Artur Bergman. There are others I’m sure and I apologize profusely for missing you. We couldn’t have done this without everybody getting behind this effort and I’m really excited what this means for broader adoption of OpenID in 2008.
January 1st, 2008 at 12:22 am
Whohoo! Let the party begin!
January 1st, 2008 at 3:44 am
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January 1st, 2008 at 8:00 am
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January 1st, 2008 at 10:23 am
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January 1st, 2008 at 10:46 am
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January 2nd, 2008 at 9:28 am
This is slightly confusing: can I still be on the @openid.net lists without signing anything? Will anything said on the lists be assumed to be covered by the IPR policy? Maybe I confuse the lists with upcoming, proper, WGs?
The rationale document linked from http://openid.net/foundation/intellectual-property/ seems to have disappeared. Is it correct to assume Draft_20070925.pdf is still the latest and that it will be updated?
I’d really like to figure out why W3C, IETF, OASIS, etc. IPR policies and processes were not considered usable. Perhaps a rationale FAQ entry could describe the reasoning and what diffs there are to these other standard orgs?
January 9th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Hans,
As we currently stand, the general@ and other current OpenID lists remain open to all. Where the IPR policy talks about requiring a participation agreement before being able to join discussions, it is referring to the mailing lists that will exist for each ratified working group. Once this is underway, working groups will be discouraged from using contributions posted outside of their own mailing list.
April 16th, 2008 at 3:23 am
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