From: | Koen Martens <pgsql(at)metro(dot)cx> |
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To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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 08:38:02 |
Message-ID: | 44EC13EA.2090608@metro.cx |
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 23. August 2006 01:35 schrieb Joshua D. Drake:
>> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>> Koen Martens wrote:
>>>> Personally, I think the BSD license is confusing for graphics.
>>> What would you suggest instead?
>> Creative Commons :)
>
> Creative Commons publishes a number of licenses, but all of them are
> significantly more restrictive (and more complicated) than the BSD license,
> to the extent that they are incompatible with traditional standards for free
> software. Since PostgreSQL graphics should be available for inclusion into
> program packages (e.g., menu icons) or documentation, this would be a serious
> restriction.
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??
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).
Gr,
Koen
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