OpenSAML user discussion

[Prakash Yamuna <>]

Scott,

Thanks for your response. I had a follow up question -
if I am a corporoate developer but would like to
contribute in an individual capacity then how would
that work (maybe I am being redundant here!)?

For example, I know that if I use my company's
resources for any work then that belongs to the
company and so one would need the necessary paper
work.

If one were to devote their efforts say by using
personal resources in that case what are the
implications?

thanks,
prakash
--- Scott Cantor 
<>
 wrote:

> > Is there any way to contribute to OpenSAML?
> 
> Yes, preferably after discussing the area of
> contribution with me first.
> 
> As with Apache, nothing can be contributed without
> assignment of license and
> IPR rights to Internet2. For corporate developers,
> this is something their
> employer has to sign, because the work is owned by
> the employer.
> 
>
http://www.internet2.edu/resources/i2-contributor-license-1.pdf
> 
> The plan is for the next release to be covered by
> the Apache 2.0 license and
> dump the current Apache-like license. That requires
> (in addition to donation
> of copyright) that any contributions made include
> donation of any patent
> licenses held by the contributor with respect to the
> contribution so that
> those rights are transferred to the OpenSAML
> licensee.
> 
> Except for small patches and the like, essentially I
> can't even look at
> anything if that paperwork isn't on file with
> Internet2. We take the
> integrity of the package license and copyright very
> seriously because many
> of us are using Shibboleth and need to insure that
> it remains open.
> 
> The above, of course, applies to Shibboleth as well.
> If people are working
> on SSO-related projects, I would vastly prefer that
> the collaboration
> operate at that level. We don't need dozens of SAML
> SSO projects built on
> the same SAML library when they all have to do the
> same things anyway.
> 
> -- Scott
> 
> 



                
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