Hi,<br><br>I'm working on updating MediaWiki OpenID extension
(<a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID">http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID</a>) 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.<br><br>You can see current testing site here: <a href="http://www.sharingbuttons.org/Special:OpenIDLogin">http://www.sharingbuttons.org/Special:OpenIDLogin</a><br>
<br>Current
testing site is using code from modified
<a href="http://code.google.com/p/openid-selector/">http://code.google.com/p/openid-selector/</a> 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).<br><br>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.<br>
<br>Thank you,<br><br> Sergey<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Sergey Chernyshev<br><a href="http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/">http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/</a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Aryeh Gregor <span dir="ltr"><...@<a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Sergey Chernyshev
<<a href="mailto:sergey.chernyshev@gmail.com">sergey.chernyshev@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I've made some customizations to OpenID selector code (<br>
> <a href="http://code.google.com/p/openid-selector/" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/openid-selector/</a>) and combined it with MediaWiki<br>
> OpenID extension, you can see the result here:<br>
> <a href="http://www.sharingbuttons.org/Special:OpenIDLogin" target="_blank">http://www.sharingbuttons.org/Special:OpenIDLogin</a><br>
><br>
> Iwant to check it in back into the repository, but it uses "New BSD License"<br>
> and I wonder if it's OK to do so.<br>
><br>
> Otherwise I'll write one from scratch and GPL it.<br>
<br>
</div>The three-clause BSD license is universally considered a free software<br>
license and is certainly acceptable for checking into our repository.<br>
Moreover, it's GPL-compatible. The license permits you to take any<br>
BSD-licensed software that you possess and relicense it as GPL (or<br>
under any other compatible license, such as "totally proprietary (plus<br>
liability/attribution requirements for redistributors)"). You<br>
certainly wouldn't need to rewrite anything.<br>
<br>
However, it seems to include a number of trademarked, copyrighted<br>
logos. In other words, it's not really BSD-licensed. I don't know if<br>
the logos should be in the repo. Even if we're not going to worry<br>
about copyright on logos (à la Firefox), I'd think that the current<br>
extension might be a trademark violation, in that users might<br>
reasonably think your site is part of or endorsed by Google/AOL/etc.<br>
IANAL, of course.<br>
<br>
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