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
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>wrote;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 <sergey.chernyshev(a)gmail.com>
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
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wrote:
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.
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