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Theme Licensing
Yotto:
I agree with Llorean, with the added part that anybody who has uploaded a WPS without any sort of license, who thinks their rights would be infringed by someone modifying them, should be taken out and shot.
Bagder:
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--- Quote from: Llorean on May 20, 2007, 02:28:12 AM ---At the moment, even doing something as simple as fixing bad date tags violates US copyright law, if one wants to be exceedingly technical.
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What about Swedish law, as given that is where the servers are located (and furthermore many of us are outside the US) it would seem more relevant than US law other than for US users.
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The Swedish law is pretty much identical in this context, so without specified license we aren't allowed to redistribute (modified) versions.
Nate!:
For the regular tester/wps creator, would adding the following statement to the WPS description be enough:
This WPS is being published under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Please feel free to edit, redistribute, and modify as necessary.
Would you have to add this statement to every file of the WPS? (Theme.cfg, .wps, config.cfg)
What if we put a blanket statement for future submissions stating in order to upload, the tester must agree to releasing their WPS under the above license and allow for editing, redistribution, and modification.
lights0ut:
First, thanks to everyone for their comments.
Nate, I see where you're going with this, while it may be a bit of a hassle to force authors to license their work, I think this is the best method. I understand it would be much easier just to force all uploaders to agree to CC-by-SA, but it *may* prevent some users from uploading their work.
There is an advantage to having the info in the .cfg and the .wps, it lets anyone who is editing them know who the author is, and what the license is. There wiki pages ThemeGuidelines and SoapSealofApproval have 'templates' for adding the recommended info.
--- Quote from: Yotto on May 20, 2007, 03:09:38 AM ---I agree with Llorean, with the added part that anybody who has uploaded a WPS without any sort of license, who thinks their rights would be infringed by someone modifying them, should be taken out and shot.
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:D True.
gwrtheyrn:
i've got the same problem, specifically i based my theme on the brushed metal theme by zakk roberts. now my problem is there's no license on the rockbox-theme page, and there's no way to contact this guy either.
so does that mean i cannot distribute the theme as long as i use some brushed metal graphics?
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