Re: Need license clarification on some web graphics

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-www-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> [mailto:pgsql-www-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Emily Boyd
> Sent: 14 February 2006 11:57
> To: pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Need license clarification on some
> web graphics
>
> Dave Page wrote:
> > Which is great, but as the entire site is and always has
> been offered
> > for anyone to use under the BSD licence that simply won't
> work because
> > we have no sensible practical way of excluding specific
> files from the
> > licence advertised on the project site.
>
> As Tom Lane said when this was first raised over a year ago:
>
> "The BSD license is not antithetical to living beside non-free stuff
> (unlike GPL). I agree it would be a good idea to point out
> somewhere in
> the relevant docs that the elephant image isn't BSD'd, just so no one
> mistakenly thinks it is."
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-www/2004-12/msg00278.php

Yes, I know what Tom said and don't disagree with him, however he missed
my point. The Gborg site quite clearly states that the entire project is
BSD licenced and to exclude individual files from that licence and
inform the user through a readme somewhere may easily be misconstrued as
misleading and confusing.

Regards, Dave