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@@ -30,3 +30,50 @@ A simple fix would be to ship those icons with ikiwiki and serve them locally, b
 > legal stuff involved. (from a practical point of view, things are not that
 > strict, as `apt-file find facebook.png` and `apt-file find flickr.png`
 > reveal.) --[[chrysn]]
+
+>> The fundamental problem here is that we want to balance these
+>> somewhat incompatible goals:
+>>
+>> * show users a provider icon that they'll recognise at a glance
+>> * don't infringe copyright
+>> * don't distribute non-DFSG-licensed things in the source package
+>> * don't let miscellaneous OpenID providers track our users
+>>
+>> A "quick hack" version of removing these would be to have an option to
+>> disable the friendly JavaScript OpenID selector and go back to a simple
+>> input box. I might implement that option anyway - on websites mainly used
+>> by technologists, the OpenID selector is a bit of a waste of time.
+>>
+>>> Not done yet. -s
+>>>
+>>>> FWIW, I don't think we should implement this. The current selector is 
+>>>> fine: if elite technologists don't want the selector, they can just 
+>>>> turn off javascript. :) -- [[anarcat]]
+>> 
+>> One way to have recognisable icons would be to ship DFSG imitations of
+>> the "real" logos in the underlay. Between gnome-online-accounts and
+>> Empathy, we can probably find most of them (mostly or perhaps all done by
+>> Jakub Steiner).
+>>
+>>> [[!template id=gitbranch branch=smcv/ready/openid author="[[smcv]]"]]
+>>> [[!tag patch]]
+>>> Here's a git branch. I deleted the shut-down ClaimID and MyOpenID providers,
+>>> used icons from GNOME Online Accounts and Wordpress where available, and
+>>> drew my own for the rest.
+>>> [See it in use here](http://blueview.hosted.pseudorandom.co.uk/ikiwiki.cgi?do=prefs)
+>>> -s
+>>>>
+>>>> Awesome work Simon! I owe you a beer. [[merged|done]] --[[Joey]] 
+>>>>
+>>>> Same here, thanks for this!!! -- [[anarcat]]
+>>
+>> If people want the "real" logos, we could have some code to make IkiWiki
+>> download the favicons into transient underlay (which I think is
+>> higher-priority?), or into a higher-priority underlay if necessary,
+>> during the wiki build, so they'll be served from the wiki's own server.
+>>
+>>> Not done yet. I'm not sure whether I'm going to bother, but I'd review
+>>> someone else's implementation. -s
+>>
+>>>> Doesn't seem to be a priority to me either. --[[anarcat]]
+>> --[[smcv]]