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3 years 9 months ago #202450 by ritapas
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Hello,
one of our users wishes to put a copyright notice on his own template.
Is this legit?
Regards.
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3 years 9 months ago - 3 years 9 months ago #202451 by holch
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Not an official response: As long as the template is 100% created by him/form him and does not depend in any way on any other code from any other of the templates, I'd say there is no problem.

But what does user want to "copyright" anwya? CSS code? Colors? Good luck.

Let's see what others say. I am not an expert on OS licenses.

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3 years 9 months ago - 3 years 9 months ago #202463 by DenisChenu
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My opinion :
HTML must still in GPLv3 (except if tottally rewritten)
Theme can have a different copyright.

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3 years 9 months ago #202466 by jelo
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ritapas wrote: one of our users wishes to put a copyright notice on his own template.
Is this legit?

How can anyone be able to answer that question, without knowing the residence of your user and yourself. The question is what law is applied in your area.

Second question is "theme" vs "template". After renaming the html/css/js collection from template into themes (since LS3), a template can be a questionnaire and the theme the optical stuff.

The meaning of the word "stable" for users
www.limesurvey.org/forum/development/117...ord-stable-for-users
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3 years 9 months ago #202467 by ritapas
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jelo wrote:

ritapas wrote: one of our users wishes to put a copyright notice on his own template.
Is this legit?

How can anyone be able to answer that question, without knowing the residence of your user and yourself. The question is what law is applied in your area.

Second question is "theme" vs "template". After renaming the html/css/js collection from template into themes (since LS3), a template can be a questionnaire and the theme the optical stuff.


You are right, of course, but one cannot always know where his/her users come from.
Of course we could ask each of them but we'd like to define a common policy.

As for "template" sorry, my fault, I meant "Theme".
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3 years 9 months ago #202468 by jelo
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ritapas wrote: You are right, of course, but one cannot always know where his/her users come from.

Correct, but you know where you are based and under which law you conduct business with your user.

The meaning of the word "stable" for users
www.limesurvey.org/forum/development/117...ord-stable-for-users
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