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They look similar at a glance (border-top + Calluna font), so he might have taken inspiration from yours, but doesn't seem to have used any of your assets - the
by ricardobeat 6y ago
They look similar at a glance (border-top + Calluna font), so he might have taken inspiration from yours, but doesn't seem to have used any of your assets - the styles are clearly different and based on the WP 'BlankSlate' theme.
(my personal blog had a top border like that a decade ago, when styles on the body were a novelty :))
- napolux 6y agoI took inspiration but I didn’t know he was sharing the code for is blog https://github.com/napolux/coding.napolux.com/ https://github.com/napolux/coding.napolux.com/
- ruuda 6y agoI checked the source and it does indeed mention https://wordpress.org/themes/blankslate/ https://wordpress.org/themes/blankslate/, but judging from the screenshot there, that theme is just really a blank theme with no style at all, and it was used to include a different stylesheet. The real style is at https://coding.napolux.com/wp-content/themes/coding.napolux.com/styles/compiled/index.css https://coding.napolux.com/wp-content/themes/coding.napolux...., which looks like normalize.css followed by a Wordpress adaptation of my stylesheet. The similarity is more than superficial, the footer headers match exactly.
- thelean12 6y agoCome on, this is super petty. And that includes your license choice and your enforcement for this.
- jasonlotito 6y agoSo, just to be clear, you are perfectly fine with someone taking something someone else created and violating the terms upon which they were given that thing? e.g. If I took code you wrote and lets say released under an MIT license and claimed I wrote it and didn't give you any credit, and in fact released it under another license entirely, you'd be fine with that?
- thelean12 6y agoIt's perfectly valid to criticize the original license choice. GPLv3 is a very restrictive license, especially for what is essentially a micro blog (though I dislike the license for most open source software anyway). Add on the original author going after a bit of CSS, not even the main effort of the project in question, and you've got my "petty" comment.
- apolymath 6y agoThere is an artist who takes images from magazines, repurposes them for his own art, and sells them for hundreds of thousands of dollars, then gets sued by the magazines & photographers & artists, and guess what, HE WINS AGAINST THOSE LAWSUITS. Copyright is BS, especially concerning HTML & CSS code. What a joke.
- jasonlotito 6y agoYou didn't answer my question. That pretty much says all that needs to be said.
- thelean12 6y agoMy answer is less useful to the discussion. But here you go: 1. I wouldn't use GPLv3 2. I wouldn't care if people stole my code that I open sourced or if they tried to license it a different way. 3. I personally follow the license of others when using their code. I wouldn't steal GPLv3 code without proper attribution etc. That's their right. All that doesn't go against my initial opinion: GPLv3 for a small micro blog templating system is lame. Enforcing it for a bit of CSS is petty.
- coronadisaster 6y ago> All that doesn't go against my initial opinion: GPLv3 for a small micro blog templating system is lame. Enforcing it for a bit of CSS is petty. It is a matter of principle, probably?
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- yev 6y agoI would back you up on this. This is super petty to be like that over a couple of lines of css.