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

Hi,

>>Which reminds me of a problem - *all* the website in CVS is published
>>under the BSD licence, however that includes the elephant which Emily
>>pointed out was a $100 stock photo. Technically that means we cannot use
>>the elephant...
>
> How so? 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.

I'd like to point out that code does not equate to *design*, and that
the previous conversation was about *site code*, i.e., pgweb, and not
the design (and even then, nothing was decided upon.)

Not that there's anything in the BSD license that says you can't use an
image on a website, but alas.

This is a proposed license. The PostgreSQL Global Development Group must
accept the following terms for the BSD license and copyright addition to
take affect (the CSS has already been BSD licensed, separately.)

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The images (except the elephant in the announcement box on the front
page), the unique combination of images, colors, sizes, typography, and
positioning ("the design") are:

Copyright (c) 2004 Emily Boyd
Copyright (c) 2004 Omar Kilani

("the original copyright holders") and is additionally:

Copyright (c) 2004 PostgreSQL Global Development Group

And is released under the BSD license.

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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.

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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.

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> regards, tom lane

Best Regards,
Omar Kilani
Emily Boyd