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.chernys...@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.
>
> Sergey
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Aryeh Gregor
> <simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com <simetrical%2bwikil...@gmail.com><
> simetrical%2bwikil...@gmail.com <simetrical%252bwikil...@gmail.com>>
> > wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
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