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20070521 Monday May 21, 2007
Sun reassures OpenID developers
At the Internet Identity Workshop last week in Mountain View, CA, Sun issued a "non-assertion covenant," which promises that Sun will not enforce patents against developers of OpenID technology.

This means that Sun will not impose licensing terms, conditions, or fees for the use of any patents held by Sun related to OpenID V1.1 or OpenID Simple Registration V1.0. The only condition is that developers refrain from asserting their own (or others') patents against any other OpenID implementation developer.

For a copy of the covenant and to see an FAQ, please go to the OpenID resources page.

For more information, check out the latest news on our OpenID initiative!


posted by molini May 21 2007, 11:23:34 AM PDT Permalink Comments [3]

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Sun will not impose licensing terms, conditions, or fees for the use of any patents held by Sun related to OpenID V1.1 or OpenID Simple Registration V1.0???????????

Posted by autooo on May 21, 2007 at 07:07 PM PDT #

Sun does two things to create patent freedom for open source developers working on Free software. We issue ( non-assert covenants), which give a binding promise not to assert any patents against implementations of a given standard and we use open source licenses (like CDDL) that convey the patent rights along with the copyright, so that developers can be sure they have all the same protects we and other community participants have.

Posted by molini on May 21, 2007 at 07:11 PM PDT #

Good news I hope everybody read this article Thank you for infos.

Posted by star peri on May 22, 2007 at 02:31 PM PDT #

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