[haiku-web] Re: Porting the website theme to Drupal 5.7

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?

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