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Are this kind of full clones legal? I understand that the server-side implementation is based on GitHub as a black box but I'm wondering about the blatant clon

by AhtiK 13y ago

Are this kind of full clones legal? I understand that the server-side implementation is based on GitHub as a black box but I'm wondering about the blatant clone of the UI.

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hansgru 13y ago
> Are this kind of full clones legal? This is not a "full clone" but "something like GitHub" but for your own private server. > I understand that the server-side implementation is based on GitHub as a black box No, it's not. The serverside is implemented in Scala using a JGit as a GIT library for the files and H2 database for saving the metadata.
- amazari 13y ago
  > No, it's not. The serverside is implemented in Scala using a JGit as a GIT library for the files and H2 database for saving the metadata. From a quick scan of the sources, H2 seems to be an hard-coded dependency. Do you have any plan on abstracting the Slick driver to allow others DB providers ?
  - hansgru 13y ago
    > Do you have any plan on abstracting the Slick driver to allow others DB providers ? I'm not the developer of the project, but database independence was not requested so far :). I suppose if users will ask it, it will be added. H2 suits however very well all the needs, it has a web based Admin UI that can be simply reused, and it's performance is fantastic: http://h2database.com/html/performance.html http://h2database.com/html/performance.html
- AhtiK 13y ago
  Thanks. Just to be clear, I appreciate the effort and do not say it was something illegal to do. I was just wondering about theoretical consequences of cloning UI/tool of a successful company software with the reason of the tool/interface being too expensive. If it's done for learning the technologies then it's "for educational purposes" and probably falls into another copyright use category that is more permissive.
  - hansgru 13y ago
    > I was just wondering about theoretical consequences of cloning UI/tool of a successful company software with the reason of the tool/interface being too expensive. The UI was not cloned either :). The UI is a Scalatra template (Twirl) and a Twitter Bootstrap style. It could be customized in any possible way and look the user would wish, but so far the developers are concentrating on the basic features.
agilebyte 13y ago
UI as far as I know is not copyrightable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_v._Borland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_v._Borland
- AhtiK 13y ago
  Yet we have patents for rubber band scrolling :) (someone posted a comment here about this scrolling patent but then removed, not sure why)
zeckalpha 13y ago
Note that this is hosted on GitHub and not GitBucket. I made the mistake of thinking that the linked site was a running instance.

by AhtiK 13y ago

Are this kind of full clones legal? I understand that the server-side implementation is based on GitHub as a black box but I'm wondering about the blatant clone of the UI.

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hansgru 13y ago

> Are this kind of full clones legal? This is not a "full clone" but "something like GitHub" but for your own private server. > I understand that the server-side implementation is based on GitHub as a black box No, it's not. The serverside is implemented in Scala using a JGit as a GIT library for the files and H2 database for saving the metadata.

amazari 13y ago
> No, it's not. The serverside is implemented in Scala using a JGit as a GIT library for the files and H2 database for saving the metadata. From a quick scan of the sources, H2 seems to be an hard-coded dependency. Do you have any plan on abstracting the Slick driver to allow others DB providers ?
- hansgru 13y ago
  > Do you have any plan on abstracting the Slick driver to allow others DB providers ? I'm not the developer of the project, but database independence was not requested so far :). I suppose if users will ask it, it will be added. H2 suits however very well all the needs, it has a web based Admin UI that can be simply reused, and it's performance is fantastic: http://h2database.com/html/performance.html http://h2database.com/html/performance.html
AhtiK 13y ago
Thanks. Just to be clear, I appreciate the effort and do not say it was something illegal to do. I was just wondering about theoretical consequences of cloning UI/tool of a successful company software with the reason of the tool/interface being too expensive. If it's done for learning the technologies then it's "for educational purposes" and probably falls into another copyright use category that is more permissive.
- hansgru 13y ago
  > I was just wondering about theoretical consequences of cloning UI/tool of a successful company software with the reason of the tool/interface being too expensive. The UI was not cloned either :). The UI is a Scalatra template (Twirl) and a Twitter Bootstrap style. It could be customized in any possible way and look the user would wish, but so far the developers are concentrating on the basic features.

agilebyte 13y ago

UI as far as I know is not copyrightable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_v._Borland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_v._Borland

AhtiK 13y ago
Yet we have patents for rubber band scrolling :) (someone posted a comment here about this scrolling patent but then removed, not sure why)

zeckalpha 13y ago

Note that this is hosted on GitHub and not GitBucket. I made the mistake of thinking that the linked site was a running instance.