Standard - Appendix: Copyright and IPR notices should be put in place.

[Nat Sakimura]

In particular, the following MUST be included in each specs.

  The technology described in this specification was 
  made available from contributions from various sources, 
  including members of the OpenID Foundation and others.  
  Although the OpenID Foundation has taken steps to help ensure 
  that the technology is available for distribution, it takes 
  no position regarding the validity or scope of any intellectual 
  property or other rights that might be claimed to  pertain to 
  the implementation or use of the technology described in 
  this specification or  the extent to which  any license under 
  such rights might or might not be available; neither does it 
  represent that it has made any independent effort to identify 
  any such rights.  The OpenID Foundation and the contributors 
  to this specification make no (and hereby expressly disclaim any) 
  warranties (express, implied, or otherwise), including implied 
  warranties of merchantability, non-infringement, fitness for 
  a particular purpose, or title, related to this specification, 
  and the entire risk as to implementing this specification is 
  assumed by the implementer.  The OpenID Intellectual 
  Property Rights policy requires contributors to offer 
  a patent promise not to assert certain patent claims against 
  other contributors and  against implementers.  OpenID invites 
  any interested party to bring to its attention any copyrights, 
  patents, patent applications, or other proprietary rights 
  that may cover technology that may be required to practice 
  this specification.

[Nat Sakimura]

1. Ref #163. Proposed text added.

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[Nat Sakimura]

Copyright notice:

OIDF grants to any Contributor, developer, implementer, or other interested party a non-exclusive, royalty free, worldwide copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works from, distribute, perform and display, this Implementers Draft or Final Specification (i) solely for the purposes of developing specifications, and (ii) implementing Implementers Drafts and Final Specifications based on such documents, provided that attribution be made to OIDF as the source of the material, but that such attribution does not indicate the endorsement by OIDF.

[Nat Sakimura]

Fix #163 Added Copyright Notices

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[Nat Sakimura]

For the note, the entire notices is as below:

<section title="Notices"> <t>Copyright (c) 2011 The OpenID Foundation. </t>

<t>The OpenID Foundation (OIDF) grants to any Contributor, developer, implementer, or other interested party a non-exclusive, royalty free, worldwide copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works from, distribute, perform and display, this Implementers Draft or Final Specification (i) solely for the purposes of developing specifications, and (ii) implementing Implementers Drafts and Final Specifications based on such documents, provided that attribution be made to OIDF as the source of the material, but that such attribution does not indicate the endorsement by OIDF. </t>

<t>The technology described in this specification was made available from contributions from various sources, including members of the OpenID Foundation and others. Although the OpenID Foundation has taken steps to help ensure that the technology is available for distribution, it takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any intellectual property or other rights that might be claimed to pertain to the implementation or use of the technology described in this specification or the extent to which any license under such rights might or might not be available; neither does it represent that it has made any independent effort to identify any such rights. The OpenID Foundation and the contributors to this specification make no (and hereby expressly disclaim any) warranties (express, implied, or otherwise), including implied warranties of merchantability, non-infringement, fitness for a particular purpose, or title, related to this specification, and the entire risk as to implementing this specification is assumed by the implementer. The OpenID Intellectual Property Rights policy requires contributors to offer a patent promise not to assert certain patent claims against other contributors and against implementers. OpenID invites any interested party to bring to its attention any copyrights, patents, patent applications, or other proprietary rights that may cover technology that may be required to practice this specification. </t>

</section>

[OpenID Foundation]

The current drafts have almost identical text in Notices section, but the place of (i) is different and needs to be fixed.

The board approved paragraph is:

OIDF grants to any Contributor, developer, implementer, or other interested party a non-exclusive, royalty free, worldwide copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works from, distribute, perform and display, this Implementers Draft or Final Specification solely for the purposes of (i) developing specifications, and (ii) implementing Implementers Drafts and Final Specifications based on such documents, provided that attribution be made to OIDF as the source of the material, but that such attribution does not indicate the endorsement by OIDF.

[Michael Jones]

Fixed #163 Standard - Appendix: Copyright and IPR notices should be put in place

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