Shibboleth Developers

["Scott Cantor" <>]

> The GridShib plugin for Shib uses the following package names:
> 
> package edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.common;
> package edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.common.provider;

For your code or referencing/incorporating other code?

> Is this use of the edu.internet2 namespace "allowed"?

Not for code you're producing, no. Java packges are no different than any
other DNS-based hierarchy. It only works if people follow the rules.

> If so, what
> license header should be used in the source (both Globus and Internet2
> derive from Apache License, Version 2.0)?

If you're copying in source from us, I would change the package names, but I
think the licensing terms let you do anything you want (including
relicensing it) as long as the "contains code from Internet2"
acknowledgement is present.

But under no circumstances should you drop the code in wholesale into your
jarfile. That's exactly what got Globus into trouble.

-- Scott