<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Robert McNamara <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robert.mcnamara@gmail.com">robert.mcnamara@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:38 PM, David Brodbeck <<a href="mailto:gull@gull.us">gull@gull.us</a>> wrote:<br>
> Chris Ribe wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> I am aware that there is a long history of popular non-GPL themes, but a<br>
>> license that "disallows copying or derivative works" is unlike any Creative<br>
>> Commons license I am aware of.<br>
><br>
> There's a whole series of Creative Commons licenses, so people can pick<br>
> whatever they find suits their purposes best. They're basically a<br>
> combination of three variables: Is attribution required? Is commercial use<br>
> allowed? Are derivative works allowed? There are versions of the license<br>
> with pretty much any combination of these you like. The only thing they<br>
> have in common is all of them allow some form of copying:<br>
> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/</a><br>
<br>
</div>Indeed. Copying will be fine. The license was borne out of my choice<br>
of font, and my anticipation that if I allowed derivative works, that<br>
someone would invariably hack together "the free Arclight"-- if I<br>
can't find a font that comes close to being as elegant, then I have<br>
some serious reservations about allowing anyone else to do so. Since<br>
copying doesn't have anything to do with this issue, it'll be fine to<br>
redistribute.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div><br>This is all well and good and I understand and respect your motivations. There is every possibility that "the free Arclight" could be better than yours, though, so don't pretend like you are doing this to stimulate theme development. <br>
</div></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Chris Ribe<br><br>