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Anymore themes coming for Sansa C200?

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Multiplex:
If it is a cut&paste from other WPSs that has permissive licences then it won't be a problem - that is presumably why everyone is trying to get the WPSs appropriately licensed.

Chronon:
oayz: You can read the "Importance of proper theme licensing" sticky for more info.

oayz:
Chronon: I understand and comply.

On the other hand I'm not a lawyer and have nor time neither desire to trace origins of the WPS's I've being using to compose mine. I just use it, improve it and let other people do the same with my work. If this is not acceptable I will be the only user of my work

On personal note I believe this copyright and licensing thing is too much of the deal for WPS development. That's why number of available WPS went down. Shouldn't it be more like "presumption of innocence" case where it's OK to post/modify unless complain is received? Next step - I would have to check every word of my post for plagiarism :-)

Separate comment on having WPS stop working with new releases of RB. Why there is no backward compatibility? This %pb change just cracks me - it clearly could be done backward compatible yet this change resulted in 50% WPS down. And even if feature is not supported anymore WPS parser skip it, instead it just reverts to altogether.

Anyway, sorry for this runt - it's my 2c and can be simply ignored if you think it doesn’t make sense

Chronon:
The licensing requirements are meant to make it easier to share resources, not harder.  If all of the themes in our wiki have permissive licenses then you don't have to worry about whether or not it's possible to reuse some element from a theme you like.  This is all mentioned in the sticky.

I am not a lawyer either, but that's not how copyright works.  Unless you are granted rights specifically, then a work is copyright with all rights reserved.  By asking users to license their themes in a certain way we ensure that it's okay to share and borrow from them.  The spirit of open source is to grant rights explicitly, not to steal things under the assumption that no one will care.  These licensing guidelines appear completely consistent with the ideals of free software to me.

Another reason to prefer permissive licensing -- it ensures that anyone can post a fixed version of a theme in the event that syntax changes break themes at some point in the future.

Here is link to the currently preferred license:

Llorean:
As to backward compatibility:

If we leave every old tag in, the parser gets more complex. It makes it harder to develop, wastes more battery and RAM, and means sometimes we need to have duplicate tags.

Simply put, it makes no sense to have backward compatibility when people can just fix their themes. It would be nice, but it's more beneficial to keep things lean.

Meanwhile ignoring tags is also a very bad idea. What's the point in displaying a half-working WPS? It's still broken. This way it's just very clearly broken so you notice immediately.

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