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Subject: RE: [rights] An effort to clear up the confusion over CG patent c laims
Karl, Thanks, I found them (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security/rsa-ipr-statement-SAML3b-OASI S-2002-04-22.shtml and http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ebxml-cppa/documents/ibm_ipr_statement. shtml). SAML: RSA "believes that these two patents (collectively, "the RSA Patents") may be relevant to practicing certain operational modes of the OASIS Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) specifications." "Certain operational modes" is quite a qualifier, so I wouldn't read this as "you need RSA's permission to use SAML." ebXML CPPA: IBM, on the other hand, does believe that their "patent may be essential to compliant implementations of OASIS ebXML Collaboration Protocol Profiles (CPP's) and Collaboration Protocol Agreements (CPA's) specifications." This is certainly unqualified. Both of them mention "royalty free licenses," while ContentGuard's (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/rights/documents/oasisrltc.shtml) mentions "reasonable and non-discriminatory terms," but I will take heart in Brad's use of the term "royalty free licensing" in his recent post, and consider the post to be a big step forward in clearing up some of the misunderstandings about XrML's potential role as an OASIS standard. thanks, Bob DuCharme Consulting Software Engineer, LexisNexis Data Architecture, Editorial Systems and Content Engineering -----Original Message----- From: Karl F. Best [mailto:karl.best@oasis-open.org] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 3:34 PM To: DuCharme, Bob (LNG); 'Gandee, Brad'; Rights (E-mail) (E-mail) Subject: RE: [rights] An effort to clear up the confusion over CG patent claims Bob: The works of other OASIS TCs have had IPR claims made against them. In particular you could take a look at SAML and ebXML CPPA. Each TC lists its IPR claims on its web page. </karl> ================================================================= Karl F. Best OASIS - Director, Technical Operations +1 978.667.5115 x206 karl.best@oasis-open.org http://www.oasis-open.org
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