Theme GPL violations ? :: Archived

shimon · Nice poster Offline Joined: Jul 25, 2004 Posts: 146

put them under the GPL license please

Stephen · Silver Supporter Offline Joined: Apr 21, 2004 Posts: 734

shimon wrote:

put them under the GPL license please

Or not. Private license is acceptable. Or OSLA. Smile

shimon · Nice poster Offline Joined: Jul 25, 2004 Posts: 146

GPL GPL GPL GPL GPL is the best for themes i understand why cpgnuke isn't GPL because you guys don't want puke to steal your work but the thing is he can't he will break ALL themes but then more themes will be compable with cpgnuke

Stephen · Silver Supporter Offline Joined: Apr 21, 2004 Posts: 734

No.. CPG-Nuke is GPL. Certain add-ons and such are going to be OSLA.

Jamin, The best solution is to not release your themes at all...

shimon · Nice poster Offline Joined: Jul 25, 2004 Posts: 146

accully i am GPL or later minded

xfsunoles · Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 4:46 pm Post subject: Re: I made a few themes

i rather not release of my theme. which licenses requirement of private, osla and GPL.

DJ Maze · Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2004 12:38 am Post subject: Re: Theme GPL violence ?

Split from this topic: cpgnuke.com/Forums/vie...=6250.html

Now if someone reads GPL carefully and then posts in the correct forum everything would be way better

Stephen · Silver Supporter Offline Joined: Apr 21, 2004 Posts: 734

Well this topic isn't about "Theme violence" but I would like to ask..

Can you take the 'cpgnuke' theme, customize it, and release it under OSLA?

DJ Maze · Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2004 3:37 am Post subject: Re: Theme GPL violence ?

Actualy a theme can't be a different license then GPL and this is because mostly a theme is "based on" a default theme.
So mainly everyone who sells themes under a different license is violating the GPL rules.
However no-one has ever looked into that but if you do you can actualy sue every person who tries to sell php-nuke themes.

GPL states that you may ask the author of code to allow the use of his code in other free software (see GPL section 10).
However this still means you are not allowed to sell it unless it's some sort of download/support fee.

To avoid these i'm thinking to release the dragonfly theme under a different license (LGPL) but this again will have issues with parts used from the subSilver theme.

If you created your theme from scratch and only used the current theme as reference for all options (like the {S_SOMETHING} vars and  code)
I think it's allowed to have a different license, but we need to contact GNU or OSF about this.

Stephen · Silver Supporter Offline Joined: Apr 21, 2004 Posts: 734

Good deal DJ..
Maybe you should consider releasing the "cpgnuke" theme under LGPL too.. Just change the image from subSilver as you said.

<edit: fixed typo />

shimon · Nice poster Offline Joined: Jul 25, 2004 Posts: 146

sue all phpnuke theme makers you can become a millionar

anyway this thread doesn't make that much sence as it was forked off another one
and i think i wound another good thing about GPL now time to get those costly themes for free

[admin edit]There's no need to have 2 posts after eachother[/edit]

shimon · Nice poster Offline Joined: Jul 25, 2004 Posts: 146

so i can right now and request some themes for free which are based on the cpgnuke theme

CyberWoolf · Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 1:28 am Post subject: Re: Theme GPL violence ?

Ok.. So Im a bit confused..

Can you sell themes?

Phoenix · Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 1:41 am Post subject: Re: Theme GPL violence ?

technically no, but everyone does - what the hell, it's gonna be a long list of people being sued, and I suspect it has been deliberately overlooked by developers who would lose a key component that supports their CMS.

t31os · Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 6:28 pm Post subject: Re: Theme GPL violence ?

Well word what you sell different, don't advertise as " theme sale "

More along the lines of......

I've edited X theme, and created X theme, your payment is for the graphical and coding modifcations made by myself, but not for the theme as a whole.

Surely that works?.... your selling your work and not the theme, therefore no violation right?