On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 14:55 +0200, alex diavatis wrote:
> I am building a page for allowing people to download and install > themes directly from their browser. All they have to do is to install > a browser plugin. > You can watch an old demo [1] Very cool. Will you have some means to verify the themes - there is no shortage of broken third-party themes. I do not know enough about themes to know if there is some way to verify their structure [such as for missing components] in an automated fashion. > I am not willing to make an upload service for Theme Authors at least > in beginning, and we will upload and update just the most popular > themes. > This service could also work with Icon sets but I doubt I could deal > with the bandwidth cost there. Also I am planning to support only > Gnome Theming. > So the question is if I have your permission to upload your themes and > somehow support the service cost, with donations, flatrr or ads. I > don't know if > I am allowed to run a "commercial" service in GPL or CC (or whatever > else free license) software without authors permission. I can't imagine a problem, if the theme is GPL, then you are OK. Since the theme is the source of the theme the only requirement of the GPL is immediately met. There is *zero* issue with providing GPL code via a commercial service. CC depends on which CC I suppose. > I hope I will launch a beta alongside with Fedora 18 release ..just > because I like Fedora. > About the plugin: I did a NPAPI plugin to make it easy to access > system and to work with any browser. If it works in Firefox then I'm happy. _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
