[haiku-web] Re: Porting the website theme to Drupal 5.7
- From: "Remi Grumeau" <remi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-web@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:03:17 +0100
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:42 AM, Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> On 17/03/2008, Jorge G. Mare <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 16:05 -0700, Urias McCullough wrote:
> > > On 17/03/2008, Jorge G. Mare <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > 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.
> >
> >
> > I am afraid you are missing a fundamental aspect of branding. :)
> >
> > Selectively allowing the use of the theme for Haiku user groups (such
> as
> > NORCAL-HUG) or regional chapters of the Haiku project (such as
> > haiku-os.it) does not dilute the brand, but rather strengthens it.
>
> Ok, thanks for clarifying your position - I was definitely confused
> about what you were saying previously.
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Well... since it's an HTML website, anybody can easily "save as" the page,
which would include CSS, JS and HTML structure. Ok, for a Drupal use, it
could then be a bit of work to reintegrate the whole thing into a default
installation but this is possible.
So not to release a public theme on a Drupal theme website, i'd rather would
give a free download access to a predone Drupal install with the Haiku theme
preset for anyone who want to create a Haiku related website (for a BeBug, a
local translation or a bebits-like website).
To me, that would mix with the freely available way of opensource project
and the minimum control of where and why this theme could be used, for the
reason Jorge told about (in which i'm totally agree).
Remi
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