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OAuth for Cars

My car doesn't have a valet key but it does support OAuth.

Ok, I might have gone a little overboard...

OAuth Licensed, a Step on the Way to the Open Web

Specification are tricky creatures. On their own, they are only copyrightable. But on their own they are also not very interesting. Their value is in their implementations, and those are subject to patents. If you have been following the tech world over the past couple of year, you know that patents can be very risky to developers. The problem is that in order to implement specifications, the developer usually has to write code that uses some existing patents. It is practically impossible to know which patents are involved, but at a minimum, the developers need to know that the people who wrote the specification are not going to sue them.