Shibboleth Developers

[Von Welch <>]

It's my recollection we asked permission a while back to put our Shib- 
specific code under the I2 namespace under the goal of eventually  
contributing it to the Shib project. This is with the understanding  
that we are co-ordinating our use of name under that space with its  
rightful owners in such a manner to avoid the usual pitfalls one  
could imagine if we didn't coordinate.

My thinking has always been the Shib developments of our project  
would be rolled into Shib as the Globus developments into Globus. I'm  
not sure if this goal still makes sense given what appears to be a  
very rapid move to Shib & SAML 2.0. We seem to keep bumping into  
these namespace issues when I think we've been trying to do the  
"right thing" and put things under I2/MACE/etc. So perhaps this is  
just a notion I should abandon?

Like Shibboleth, the Globus license is the Apache 2 license, not a  
derivative. So that is not an issue in any case.

Von


On Jan 24, 2006, at 10:00 AM, Scott Cantor wrote:

> > For code wholly written by the GridShib project.  For the most part,
> > only the package structure has been "borrowed".  See, for example:
> >
> > http://viewcvs.globus.org/viewcvs.cgi/playground/java/gridshib
> > /idp/src/edu/internet2/middleware/shibboleth/common/
> >
> > Is this use of the edu.internet2 namespace allowed?
>
> No, it's explicitly not allowed because you don't own the DNS domain
> internet2.edu. It's a pretty simple rule, but I guess it's left  
> entirely
> implicit in the Java world.
>
> Chad's point is correct...if you do take code and just rename, then
> prefixing with a domain is fine. Otherwise you can just do whatever  
> you
> prefer, but in a domain you own (or at least owned by the owner of the
> work).
>
> -- Scott