On 17/03/2008, Jorge G. Mare <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Anyway, how private is the template code? I would like to keep track > > of changes in a Mercurial repository and I would like to publish this > > in a hidden (but not secured, closed off) location in the haiku-os.org > > domain. Can I do that, or do we need more security measures? > > As (one of) the main authors of this theme, I hope I have a say on > this. :) Indeed, you should :) > I would be reluctant to put the theme up for anyone to grab. The reason > is that this theme is also part of our identity, and if anyone can take > our theme and use it, then we risk diluting the Haiku brand. Even open > source projects (such as Ubuntu, and even Drupal) take this position and > do not release their website themes, and I think it would be the wise > thing to do for Haiku. My only observation here is that the re-use of nearly the exact same theme on the NorCal-HUG site may already does what you're suggesting we shouldn't allow... Not that I am really one to complain - but we shouldn't maintain a double-standard. Are the themes easy to reverse-engineer from the site already? Can one mostly take the graphics, css, and some html from the various pages and smear it into a default Drupal template - or is it much more than that?