Re: logos and the BSD license - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: logos and the BSD license
Date
Msg-id 200608231923.43117.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: logos and the BSD license  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: logos and the BSD license
Re: logos and the BSD license
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Am Mittwoch, 23. August 2006 18:29 schrieb Joshua D. Drake:
> Well, in the spirit of the BSD I would say:
>
> Attribution (by)
>
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/

Well, the main problem with that license is that it prohibits you from copying
the works over encrypted links or storing the works on encrypted media or a
computer protected by a password.

"You may not distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly
digitally perform the Work with any technological measures that control
access"

The more general problem is that it is excessively complicated and ambiguously
worded and doesn't achieve anything beyond what the BSD license does.

If the BSD license is too complicated still, I can offer the following
alternative license: "You may use, modify and redistribute this software as
you wish."

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

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