Re: logos and the BSD license

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Shane Ambler <pgsql(at)007Marketing(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Mailing lists <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: logos and the BSD license
Date: 2006-08-23 16:29:49
Message-ID: 44EC827D.4030409@commandprompt.com
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>>>>> The main point is, however, that it is not completely clear how the
>>>>> BSD license, a software license, applies to graphics. So maybe there
>>>>> is nothing wrong with having the BSD license, but that is not really
>>>>> clear to me (and perhaps others).
>>>> In computing, there is only software, hardware, and wetware. Computer
>>>> graphics are also software.
>> The BSD license really doesn't apply itself to software very well.
>
> Huh!? That's news to me. Can you elaborate a bit?

I think I fat fingered that ;) I meant:

The BSD License really doesn't apply itself to graphics very well.

Sorry about that.

>
>
>> I don't see what the problem with Creative Commons is. It is quickly
>> becoming the license standard for creative works.
>
> Creative Commons is not a license. If you point at a specific CC
> license we can discuss things, otherwise everyone is just handwaving.

Well, in the spirit of the BSD I would say:

Attribution (by)

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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