From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
Cc: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Shane Ambler <pgsql(at)007marketing(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: logos and the BSD license |
Date: | 2006-08-23 18:27:25 |
Message-ID: | 200608231827.k7NIRPg28087@momjian.us |
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Good analysis. What is wrong with using a BSD license for graphics? No
one has explained that.
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 23. August 2006 18:29 schrieb Joshua D. Drake:
> > Well, in the spirit of the BSD I would say:
> >
> > Attribution (by)
> >
> > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/
>
> Well, the main problem with that license is that it prohibits you from copying
> the works over encrypted links or storing the works on encrypted media or a
> computer protected by a password.
>
> "You may not distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly
> digitally perform the Work with any technological measures that control
> access"
>
> The more general problem is that it is excessively complicated and ambiguously
> worded and doesn't achieve anything beyond what the BSD license does.
>
> If the BSD license is too complicated still, I can offer the following
> alternative license: "You may use, modify and redistribute this software as
> you wish."
>
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