Starting work on the shibboleth-sp2 packages

[Russ Allbery]

"Scott Cantor" <cantor.2 at osu.edu> writes:

> I can ask somebody privately and avoid creating a big mess about it
> before we know the story.

That would be fantastic.  I'd really appreciate this -- I know this is
everyone's least favorite topic.

> That doesn't say to me it's not copyrightable at all. It talks about
> infringement of copyright (meaning you had to be able to copyright to
> begin with), where "using" them implies that the method names have to
> appear in your code or your own interface in some way. That's very
> different than actually re-publishing the header in some way, or
> extending it.

That's definitely true.  The not copyrightable language comes from things
like phone books (there is settled case law saying that lists of facts
aren't copyrightable at all), but I don't know if that extends to the
expression of a library interface or a protocol specification.

If we could avoid even having to dive into this legal theory, that would
be great.  That's similarly why I just dropped the WS-Trust.xsd file
without trying to pursue it, since it's not required for Shibboleth to
work.  But as you point out, the OASIS SAML schemas are.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>