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InfoCard: Sender-ID All over again?

Wired ran an article today by Lawrence Lessing singing the praises of a new Microsoft protocol called “InfoCard”. I took a quick look at the technical reference and it seems very straight forward AND is all build on a bunch of OASIS and W3C standards for web services. So far, so good…

I also saw a related post by Kim Cameron of Microsoft on the licensing behind InfoCard. While he is very short on real details, he seems to assure us that it will be a normal RAND license. Where have we heard this before?

During the Sender-ID debacle, the same exact story took place. Microsoft promised that the license will be compatible with open source ONLY to release a license explictly incompatible with the GPL. Who says this will not happen again?

Tags: ipr, microsoft, openid, patents, senderid —

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