Re: logos and the BSD license

Am Mittwoch, 23. August 2006 10:38 schrieb Koen Martens:
> 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??

Because under international copyright law, if there is no license (or some
other explicit permission), you don't have the right to do anything with the
work.

> 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).

In computing, there is only software, hardware, and wetware.  Computer
graphics are also software.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/