Starting work on the shibboleth-sp2 packages

Russ Allbery rra at debian.org
Wed Jun 25 00:16:01 UTC 2008


"Scott Cantor" <cantor.2 at osu.edu> writes:

> 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.

The canonical document is:

    http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines

which is essentially identical to the Open Source Definition.  The problem
with the WS-Trust case in particular is point three: the license must
allow modifications and derived works and distribution of them under the
same license.  The problem with the OASIS copyright statement on the
standards documents themselves is point six: requiring that derivative
works only be done in support of explaining or implementing the SAML
protocol doesn't allow the modifications to be done for some other
purpose, whatever that purpose may happen to be.

An excellent license from the Debian perspective would be the W3C Software
License, which is what the W3C distributes their schemas under.  The text
is available at:

    http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231

It's essentially a variation of the BSD license.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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