It is unclear to me after reading through the threads what is the license issue. Tom Frey’s Law: “Every 5 years the number of architecture components double and the ability to comprehend them halves” Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery T o m M a g u i r e STSM, On Demand Architecture Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Steve Loughran <steve_loughran@h pl.hp.com> To Sent by: ogsa-wg <ogsa-wg@gridforum.org> owner-ogsa-wg@ggf cc .org davanum@gmail.com Subject Re: [ogsa-wg] Profile definition 06/23/2005 08:23 v13 AM Andreas Savva wrote:
I've uploaded v13 of the Profile definition. This includes a lot of edits from Jem and from the review done in the last (yesterday) call.
https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/ogsa-wg/document/draft-ggf-ogsa-profile...
One little troublespot with the profile is that unless IBM and Microsoft are willing to adapt their IPR licensing policy for WSSecurity, there may shortly not be any functional open source WS-Security implementations the summary of the current state is: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=incubator-general&m=111894292828449&w=2 and the licenses in question are http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/standards/ http://www.ibm.com/ibm/licensing/977Q/2112.shtml Unless these two vendors come to an amenable position, there isn't going to be an apache implementation (and that includes an end to WSS4J), which is going to prevent it from entering the 'community' section, or being broadly used. Now, who was planning on using WSS4J in their products? -steve