On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Sergey Chernyshev <sergey.chernys...@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
