On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 03:01:03PM -0500, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > > 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.
That's not exactly accurate. You can't just "relicense" BSD-licensed code with the GPL, or make it proprietary. What you *can* do is include it in something that sorta "wraps" or incorporates the BSD-licensed code, and license the *whole* using a different license, as long as the original BSD-licensed code still gets distributed with its BSD license too. That doesn't change the fact that you don't need to relicense or rewrite anything to use BSD-licensed code in this case. > > 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. This may be a very real concern and, as you point out, should be considered and/or changed. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Perrin's Principle of Exclusion: The strength of any system is inversely proportional to the restrictions on the power of tools allowed to the general public by that system.
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