Re: License For Contribution [Was: Re: Ready to launch?]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

>
>>>
>>> The elephant in the announcement box on the front page is a licensed
>>> derivative work of a royalty free image, and Emily Boyd grants the
>>> PostgreSQL Global Development Group the right to use said image on the
>>> postgresql.org website.
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Use by PostgreSQL International sites is possible, but a right to use must
>>> be granted by Emily Boyd for each licensee, as per the terms of the
>>> original license on the image.
>>>
>>
>> All the work you have committed has been to a CVS clearly marked as BSD
>> Licence on the project website. That is the licence under which you have
>> donated the code and design that it produces. Or have I misunderstood
>> what you are saying?
>>
> What I am seeing in this discussion is that want to keep exclusive
> rights to the original image but that all the code is BSD licensed.
>
> My basic take on this is simple:
>
> It is going to be too much of a pain in the butt. If that is the
> route they are going to be take then I will have my artist create a new
> elephant from scratch that we will be BSD licensed and copyright to the
> project.
>

Nice !

> We don't want to have to deal with this later.
>

That's also my opinion.

> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
>
>
>> Regards, Dave.
>>
>> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
>> TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command
>> (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo(at)postgresql(dot)org)
>>
>
>
>

Regards,
Oleg
_____________________________________________________________
Oleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of AstroNet,
Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University (Russia)
Internet: oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/
phone: +007(095)939-16-83, +007(095)939-23-83