[Phpmyadmin-devel] Fwd: Erstellung eines phpMyAdmin-Themes mit eigenem Logo möglich?

[Marc Delisle]

cand. inf. Alexander M. Turek a écrit :
> Hi there,
> 
> Sebastian Mendel schrieb:
>> Hosteurope (ISP for webspace, virtual server and housing)
>>
>> is asking for permission to use phpMyAdmin with her own theme without
>> PMA logo - for better integration with their other user interfaces
>>
>> (they already use phpMyAdmin for their customers, but with default theme)
> 
> I guess that's fine with the GPL as long as changing the theme does not
> result in removing/hiding copyright information (e.g. the README file).
> 
> But another thing that came to my mind when reading this: What about the
> custom theme itself? I'm not a GPL specialist, but does the GPL force
> them to make their theme available under the GPL, too? If so, is this
> something we want? :-)

Hi Alexander,

reading this:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePostedPublic

I would answer that since they released their version publicly, it's 
also covered by the GPL. In some sense, the custom theme is a 
modification of the original theme, no?

I think that we should inform them of this. However I don't think we 
should merge their custom theme in our SVN or offer it for download. 
They would have the responsibility of giving access to the source code.

Marc