I sent an email to OpenID general and legal lists CC-ing this list - not
sure how we should go about it, but I'll definitely delay UI release until I
get some initial understanding of potential solution (it's sort-of weird to
have good UI without images).
Sergey
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Hoi,
> Be glad that the original developer chose the BSD license. From a
> perspective of being able to cooperate widely, the BSD license is vastly
> superior to the GPL. It is for this reason that I urge you to develop first
> the BSD software and back-port to a GPL'd version. Then again as long as
> you
> solely work on the code, you as the copyright holder are entitled to do
> this
> anyway. When a second person shares code it starts to become problematic.
>
> The notion that trade marked logos are problematic is true for a specific
> strict understanding of the GPL license as is prevalent under people who
> adhere to the Debian way of thinking. It is definetly not universally
> shared
> and it is a travesty that brought us Iceweasel.
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
> 2009/2/24 Sergey Chernyshev <[email protected]>
>
> > Great - thanks for the license clarification, I don't think I was too
> > excited to re-implement selector.
> >
> > Good point about logos - so what do we do with this? How do we make sure
> > all
> > those logos (including OpenID, BTW) are properly licensed? I don't think
> > original developer thought about that either when he licensed it under
> BSD
> > license.
> >
> > Sergey
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Aryeh Gregor
> > <[email protected] <simetrical%[email protected]> <
> simetrical%[email protected] <simetrical%[email protected]>><
> > simetrical%[email protected] <simetrical%[email protected]> <
> simetrical%[email protected] <simetrical%[email protected]>>>
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Sergey Chernyshev
> > > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > I've made some customizations to OpenID selector code (
> > > > http://code.google.com/p/openid-selector/) and combined it with
> > > MediaWiki
> > > > OpenID extension, you can see the result here:
> > > > http://www.sharingbuttons.org/Special:OpenIDLogin
> > > >
> > > > Iwant to check it in back into the repository, but it uses "New BSD
> > > License"
> > > > and I wonder if it's OK to do so.
> > > >
> > > > Otherwise I'll write one from scratch and GPL it.
> > >
> > > The three-clause BSD license is universally considered a free software
> > > license and is certainly acceptable for checking into our repository.
> > > Moreover, it's GPL-compatible. The license permits you to take any
> > > BSD-licensed software that you possess and relicense it as GPL (or
> > > under any other compatible license, such as "totally proprietary (plus
> > > liability/attribution requirements for redistributors)"). You
> > > certainly wouldn't need to rewrite anything.
> > >
> > > However, it seems to include a number of trademarked, copyrighted
> > > logos. In other words, it's not really BSD-licensed. I don't know if
> > > the logos should be in the repo. Even if we're not going to worry
> > > about copyright on logos (à la Firefox), I'd think that the current
> > > extension might be a trademark violation, in that users might
> > > reasonably think your site is part of or endorsed by Google/AOL/etc.
> > > IANAL, of course.
> > >
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