Re: [Wikitech-l] OpenID and Provider logos

-- Sergey Chernyshev http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/ On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Aryeh Gregor ...@gmail.com 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Sergey Chernyshev http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/