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Thank you,
Sergey
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From: Sergey Chernyshev <sergey.chernyshev(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:12 PM
Subject: OpenID and Provider logos
To: general(a)openid.net, legal(a)openid.net, mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hi,
I'm working on updating MediaWiki OpenID extension (
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID) originally developed by Evan
Prodromou to add some features including selector UI that will allow users
to pick specific Provider to simplify identity URL entering.
You can see current testing site here:
http://www.sharingbuttons.org/Special:OpenIDLogin
Current testing site is using code from modified
http://code.google.com/p/openid-selector/ project which is supposedly
licensed under BSD license, but this license is incorrect as code includes
company logos required to display good UI (see original email to Wikitech
list).
I wonder if OpenID Foundation can release their logos and work with
Providers on releasing appropriate logos under licenses that can be used in
open software.
Thank you,
Sergey
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On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Aryeh Gregor <...(a)gmail.com> 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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