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Not defending the ui aping, but GH css is open source: http://primercss.io/layout/ http://primercss.io/layout/ They should have kept it proprietary if their l
by sheeshkebab 11y ago
Not defending the ui aping, but GH css is open source:
http://primercss.io/layout/ http://primercss.io/layout/
They should have kept it proprietary if their lawyers are touchy about liberal open source licenses.
>Open source
Available for use under the MIT license and built with open source projects like SCSS, Jekyll, Grunt, and more.
- jerf 11y agoOpen source covers the copyright. This is more a trademark issue. The trademark issue is independent of the copyright-openness of their assets, as it is not valid to infringe their trademark either with their assets, or with fully copyright-independent assets.
- stingraycharles 11y agoThis is correct and highlighted by the fact that Github doesn't focus on the CSS at all -- their claim would have been exactly the same if they did not copy anything and wrote everything from scratch. It's about trademark and user confusion, not copyright.