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Llorean:
Well I believe we're going to be enforcing a specific license (I think the choice was even CC-by-SA) for the new themes sight.

One of the intents of this is that if a theme becomes outdated, and the author is no longer around, we'll know absolutely that the theme can be updated. Of course another is that we like the idea of promoting the freedom to change, and basically "If we're providing space and bandwidth for the file, we'll decide what kinds of files we're willing to accept." So while we wouldn't be forcing theme authors to do anything, we'd simply be setting terms as to what can go on our hosting.

senab:

--- Quote from: linuxstb on December 02, 2007, 10:16:15 AM ---I respect your right to choose any license you wish for your themes, I just don't like to see the use of such "non-free" licenses encouraged for Rockbox-related things, and would hope that most theme authors are happy to choose the CC-by-SA.

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I totally understand and respect that. From my point of view though, releasing the source images for my theme Slant is out of the question. This is because the 'graphical identity' from it has been incorporated into other things (eg. current uni work) and it needs to remain mine. I will probably change that (and indeed the license) when the work has been marked and released from Uni.


--- Quote from: Llorean on December 02, 2007, 12:24:51 PM ---One of the intents of this is that if a theme becomes outdated, and the author is no longer around, we'll know absolutely that the theme can be updated. Of course another is that we like the idea of promoting the freedom to change, and basically "If we're providing space and bandwidth for the file, we'll decide what kinds of files we're willing to accept." So while we wouldn't be forcing theme authors to do anything, we'd simply be setting terms as to what can go on our hosting.
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Fair enough, it's your hosting at the end of the day.

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