Re: PostgreSQL ad images

OK --- she will do what she can with this new elephant and if Andreas can find the hi-res, she will update whatever new work she develops.

As far as license, all should understand that whatever we do on our end requires 0 attribution and is being provided to the community under the "best- most free" license, which I believe would be BSD.

We don't want to impede anyone's future efforts.

Thanks,
Mike E.




Peter Eisentraut wrote:

Am Freitag, 17. Februar 2006 16:23 schrieb Robert Treat: 

The issue is that we do not own the copyright on the elephant photo image
we use on the main website.  We have a license to use it for the website,
and generally we could probably reuse it in an ad banner, but we can't
release it under a creative commons license (like our other graphics)   

On the matter of licenses:

The web site of the logo-collecting project claims both that logos are under 
the BSD license and the Create Commons license.  This should be cleared up.  
"Newer items" is not clear enough.  None of the downloads I tried actually 
mentioned a specific license.

Then, Create Commons is not a license but a set of licenses.  You need to be 
clear which one you want.

I would, however, strongly advise against the Create Commons licenses.  First 
of all, it creates weird problems if someone wants to include the graphics in 
a program or documentation licenses under a BSD or (L)GPL license.  And 
second, even if you look past that, neither the Open Source Initiative nor 
the Debian Free Software Guidelines seem to think that Create Commons 
licenses are acceptable open source licenses, so programs creates using those 
graphics will have serious problems.

Is there a reason why the BSD license cannot continue to be used?