Davanum Srinivas wrote, On 17/02/2003 16.23:
Incubator Folks,We (PMC@WS) had a VOTE for accepting OpenSAML as part of Web Services project. Here are the results. +1 from 12 members. Zero -1 or -0 or +0 votes.
Excellent.
The only thing that I'd want to nail down is the license issue.What should we do next. Please advise.
Below is what seems the last mail on this subject on this list.
Reading that, I tend to think that the incubator, at this point, is capable of taking a formal position on this matter, and we should probably ask the board.
What do other incubator PMCers think of it?
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Subject: RE: Revised OpenSAML proposal
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:23:33 -0500
From: Scott Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organization: The Ohio State University
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > "A" license? What does this mean, that Apache has a license but all
> > users of it need to ask for one too? %-|
>
> i think you'd need to ask an IPR lawyer this.
The RSA position up to this point is that vendors of toolkits not only need to get a license, but also notify their customers that
they must acquire one. So Apache gets one to distribute this code, and then provides the notice to users.
The *rumor* is that they may be changing their mind about this special toolkit case, but that's not anything more than rumor.
The fundamental issue is that there is *no* license to get yet. It doesn't exist, the process doesn't exist, etc. We've been
distributing code, Sun has shipping products, RSA and Phaos and others have toolkits, etc.
So there just isn't much ground to stand on yet.
> maybe someone at the ASF needs to approach RSA officially and
> find out what their position is.
Many others are already doing this within the SSTC, and we will communicate that we're getting even more anxious on the call next
week.
-- Scott
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