Starting work on the shibboleth-sp2 packages

Scott Cantor cantor.2 at osu.edu
Tue Jun 24 22:06:27 UTC 2008


> I think it's basically the worst case scenario for everyone, Debian most
> certainly included (and probably primarily).  So I'll try to avoid that if
> at all possible.  I just wanted to be clear up-front on why I'm concerned
> and why I'm pursuing this.

I understand (now and originally, that's why I thought I should say
something about the schemas). I probably should have just kept my mouth
shut. ;-(

> I'm fairly sure that OASIS doesn't really want to put a non-DFSG license
> on the schema even if they think that they do, and I'd try to convince
> them not to if at all possible if they believe that's what they're
> currently doing and intend to do that.  It doesn't really gain them
> anything that I can see.  That W3C doesn't is hopefully a helpful argument
> on that front.

I can try. It would probably help if you can point out exactly what the
dealbreaker is, because I guess I didn't exactly understand it up front.
Even in the WS-Trust case. I take it that a right of modification and
redistribution has something to do with it. If there's a specific sentence,
that will help.

Basically, the more ammo you can give me...I can certainly enlist some help,
but the more I know the easier my explanations will be.

-- Scott





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