Re: Theme licenses

2009-03-06 Thread pondlife
So the only theme that would be restricted is the hard-coded one that nobody really ought to be adapting anyway. I wouldn't expect this to be on the theme site either. If we think of it only as a fallback in the code (under GPL), and not a theme per se, then could we not stick with CC-by-SA

Theme licenses

2009-03-05 Thread Jonas Häggqvist
A while ago, it was decided that themes on the fabled theme site should be required to be licensed exclusively CC-BY-SA. This however, results in some problems. For one thing, we can't reuse parts of themes in the Rockbox defaults since they're part of the code, and hence GPLv2-or-later. Another

Re: Theme licenses

2009-03-05 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 06:04:27PM +0100, Jonas Häggqvist wrote: A while ago, it was decided that themes on the fabled theme site should be required to be licensed exclusively CC-BY-SA. This however, results in some problems. For one thing, we can't reuse parts of themes in the Rockbox

Re: Theme licenses

2009-03-05 Thread Dave Chapman
Jonas Häggqvist wrote: A while ago, it was decided that themes on the fabled theme site should be required to be licensed exclusively CC-BY-SA. This however, results in some problems. For one thing, we can't reuse parts of themes in the Rockbox defaults since they're part of the code, and hence

Re: Theme licenses

2009-03-05 Thread Jonathan Gordon
2009/3/5 Dave Chapman d...@dchapman.com: I may be missing something obvious, but I don't understand the problem.  Themes are just data used by Rockbox, in the same way as fonts are, and even audio files.  How are they part of the code, and hence required to be GPL'd ? the origional default is

Re: Theme licenses

2009-03-05 Thread Jonas Häggqvist
Dave Chapman wrote: Jonas Häggqvist wrote: A while ago, it was decided that themes on the fabled theme site should be required to be licensed exclusively CC-BY-SA. This however, results in some problems. For one thing, we can't reuse parts of themes in the Rockbox defaults since they're part

Re: Theme licenses

2009-03-05 Thread Robert Menes
On 3/5/09, Jonas Häggqvist ras...@rasher.dk wrote: Isn't the default theme hardwired, rather than loaded from file? According to Jonathan, it is. Look at gwps-common.c. --Rob -- Nobody's ever lost in life...they're merely taking the scenic route. == Please avoid

Re: Theme licenses

2009-03-05 Thread Paul Louden
Jonas Häggqvist wrote: Isn't the default theme hardwired, rather than loaded from file? If not, then getting permission to switch our themes to CC-BY-SA seems the simplest way forward. As far as I know, the old ugly blue and black default is hard coded, while CabbieV2 is a separate .wps