[mythtv-users] A new theme on the way...

[Robert McNamara]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Chris Ribe <chrisribe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Robert McNamara
> <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:38 PM, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
>> > Chris Ribe wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I am aware that there is a long history of popular non-GPL themes, but
>> >> a
>> >> license that "disallows copying or derivative works" is unlike any
>> >> Creative
>> >> Commons license I am aware of.
>> >
>> > There's a whole series of Creative Commons licenses, so people can pick
>> > whatever they find suits their purposes best.  They're basically a
>> > combination of three variables: Is attribution required?  Is commercial
>> > use
>> > allowed?  Are derivative works allowed?  There are versions of the
>> > license
>> > with pretty much any combination of these you like.  The only thing they
>> > have in common is all of them allow some form of copying:
>> > http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/
>>
>> Indeed.  Copying will be fine.  The license was borne out of my choice
>> of font, and my anticipation that if I allowed derivative works, that
>> someone would invariably hack together "the free Arclight"-- if I
>> can't find a font that comes close to being as elegant, then I have
>> some serious reservations about allowing anyone else to do so.  Since
>> copying doesn't have anything to do with this issue, it'll be fine to
>> redistribute.
>>
>
> 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.
>

I'm doing it because (aside from dealing with people who want to tell
me how I should write/license my own work) it's *fun*.  If neat new
themes get people interested in theming, that would be very
gratifying.  I spent countless hours writing all the MythUI Theming
documentation *by myself*, written and GPL'd a theme, and done tons of
work on the core Myth themes, MythVideo, and other Myth code for .22,
so I think I've done more than my fair share to stimulate theme
development.  So forgive me if I don't feel bad about wanting to keep
one piece of work as I intended it.

Robert