On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Sergey Chernyshev
<sergey.chernyshev(a)gmail.com> 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.