Re: [security-services] Liberty IPR Issues

[Rich Salz <rsalz@datapower.com>]

> Its pretty clear, in "Each Author grants permission to OASIS and OASIS
> members the right to copy, display, perform, modify and distribute the Web
> Services Security ("WS-Security") draft specification and to authorize
> others to do the foregoing, in any medium without fee or royalty, for the
> purpose of further developing the WS-Security specification in the WSSTC as
> set forth in the draft WSS TC charter". I suggest you take this to your IP
> folks or are you asking for derivative rights for what the WSS-TC creates ?

I don't see where I'm given the right to implement the spec.  Is that 
what "perform" means?  Perhaps, but taht "for the purpose..." clause 
indicates otherwise.

My lawyer says that quote above grants the right to push paper, not 
create bits.
	/r$

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