Re: Ready to launch?

    The License on GBorg for that project could be easily changed to
whatever makes the most sense.

Chris Ryan


--- Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> wrote:

>
>
> > -----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?
>
> Regards, Dave.
>
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