[legal] OpenID and Provider logos

David Recordon david at sixapart.com
Wed Feb 25 20:59:48 UTC 2009


Hey Sergey,
This is something that we're working on though you're welcome to use  
the OpenID logo in the MediaWiki OpenID extension, but I understand  
the need to clarify this from a legal perspective.

--David

On Feb 24, 2009, at 2:12 PM, Sergey Chernyshev wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm working on updating MediaWiki OpenID extension (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID 
> ) originally developed by Evan Prodromou to add some features  
> including selector UI that will allow users to pick specific  
> Provider to simplify identity URL entering.
>
> You can see current testing site here: http://www.sharingbuttons.org/Special:OpenIDLogin
>
> Current testing site is using code from modified http://code.google.com/p/openid-selector/ 
>  project which is supposedly licensed under BSD license, but this  
> license is incorrect as code includes company logos required to  
> display good UI (see original email to Wikitech list).
>
> I wonder if OpenID Foundation can release their logos and work with  
> Providers on releasing appropriate logos under licenses that can be  
> used in open software.
>
> Thank you,
>
>             Sergey
>
>
> -- 
> Sergey Chernyshev
> http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Aryeh Gregor <... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Sergey Chernyshev <sergey.chernyshev at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
> > I've made some customizations to OpenID selector code (
> > http://code.google.com/p/openid-selector/) and combined it with  
> MediaWiki
> > OpenID extension, you can see the result here:
> > http://www.sharingbuttons.org/Special:OpenIDLogin
> >
> > Iwant to check it in back into the repository, but it uses "New  
> BSD License"
> > and I wonder if it's OK to do so.
> >
> > Otherwise I'll write one from scratch and GPL it.
>
> The three-clause BSD license is universally considered a free software
> license and is certainly acceptable for checking into our repository.
> Moreover, it's GPL-compatible.  The license permits you to take any
> BSD-licensed software that you possess and relicense it as GPL (or
> under any other compatible license, such as "totally proprietary (plus
> liability/attribution requirements for redistributors)").  You
> certainly wouldn't need to rewrite anything.
>
> However, it seems to include a number of trademarked, copyrighted
> logos.  In other words, it's not really BSD-licensed.  I don't know if
> the logos should be in the repo.  Even if we're not going to worry
> about copyright on logos (à la Firefox), I'd think that the current
> extension might be a trademark violation, in that users might
> reasonably think your site is part of or endorsed by Google/AOL/etc.
> IANAL, of course.
>
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