Hello! On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org > wrote:
> 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. > The only way to verify a theme quality is by having a <Is that working for you? Yes / No> bind to theme version and a general rating system. But this requires a user registration that I will add later. The alternative is just to add a disqus comment. > > > 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. > If there isn't an issue here, please consider this thread closed! > > > 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. > Of course it will! Thank you - alex > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > gnome-shell-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list >
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