| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Koen Martens <pgsql(at)metro(dot)cx> |
| Cc: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> |
| Subject: | Re: logos and the BSD license |
| Date: | 2006-08-23 08:47:59 |
| Message-ID: | 200608231048.01711.peter_e@gmx.net |
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Am Mittwoch, 23. August 2006 10:38 schrieb Koen Martens:
> You are probably right. If the goal is to let anyone use the
> graphics in any way they want, why have a license at all??
Because under international copyright law, if there is no license (or some
other explicit permission), you don't have the right to do anything with the
work.
> 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.
--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
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