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
<Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com<Simetrical%2Bwikilist@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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