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

Marc Delisle marc at infomarc.info
Wed Jun 10 18:36:00 CEST 2009


cand. inf. Alexander M. Turek a écrit :
> Hi again,
> 
> Marc Delisle schrieb:
>> 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?
> 
> It definitely is! But keep in mind, that their company logo will be part
> of the custom theme. I don't think that a company wants to put its logo
> under the GPL just because of a PMA theme. This is why I asked if we
> really want them to release their theme under the GPL.

I'm not sure that images need to be covered by GPL; after all, GPL is 
mainly for code. But I've yet to find something official about this. I 
just read http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/5446.

Marc

> 
>> 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.
> 
> I agree.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Alexander






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