Re: Ready to launch?

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Dave Page wrote:

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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
>> Sent: 20 December 2004 16:53
>> To: Dave Page
>> Cc: Robert Treat; pgsql-www@postgresql.org
>> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Ready to launch?
>>
>> "Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> writes:
>>> 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.
>
> Oh no, that's not what I meant. The entire site is in CVS (in fact,
> periodically rebuilds itself from CVS), and that CVS is advertised by
> the Gborg site as being covered by a BSD licence. It's not easy to edit
> that as the licence is one of a number of standard ones used site wide.
> If we keep the elephant in CVS, then I think we would need to include a
> note saying that it is not included in the licence on every place we
> have/display that licence. Not only is that a pita, but is also made
> more difficult for the reason mentioned already.
>
> Are there no good royalty free alternatives around?

Could we not put it outside of CVS and just link'd in via the IMG SRC tag?

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