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@gmail.comwrote:
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@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.
SergeyOn Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com Simetrical%2Bwikilist@gmail.com <
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wrote:
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Sergey Chernyshev sergey.chernyshev@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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