Restrictive Theme License (Re: Need colours changing on my site FREE/PAID)

[kat]

Just to throw a spanner in the works...

If you install a mod, it'll probably modify the code of a theme.

So, saying that you're not allowed to modify a theme, end of story, just can't be true.

Or, can it?

[Looking]

If you wish to put such restrictive license on your themes then more fool you (not saying you are).

Although I understand your reason for splitting this topic I think there should be some clarification about how this topic started. The original poster, before topic split, said they were using a theme that used images from an external site. This was the original basis for why this discussion started in the first place because as it is now no one will understand fully what is being discussed. This was never about mods or adding to a theme, it was about why would a theme pull images from an external site because if so it will seem that there are major restrictions to the theme that should be verified by the original theme creator.

[Deaks]

If you install a mod, it'll probably modify the code of a theme.

So, saying that you're not allowed to modify a theme, end of story, just can't be true.

Or, can it?

If a theme has such a restrictive license then installing the mod onto the theme would break the license.  By default the mod will install onto the Default theme and is very unlikley to look for that theme specifically, if it finds the file it needs to modify in the theme it will give you option to also install the mod into the theme and other themes that are installed and have the same code.   However at this time and using the Theme Site as my base for answering as stated various times, no such theme exists

But simply k@ yes if a theme has such a restrictive license installing a mod that modifys that themes files would break the license.

[kat]

So, in reality, nobody with a braincell's gonna want to install it.

Anyone who releases a theme with that kind of restriction's gotta be, well, mental, no?

[Deaks]

pretty much, its a hypothetical scenario but still plausible, I can't see any sane person releasing under such a restrictive license, unless there theme somehow manages to contain every mod that every individual site needs, and so many color variations.

[Kindred]

Just to back up what Runic has been saying

1- No theme with external images has ever been approved on the SMF theme site.
2- No theme with a license preventing personal modification has ever been approved on the SMF theme site.

3- If a theme was created and distributed from some other site that had some stupid license which forbid personal modifications, then applying any mod which affected theme files would be a violation of the license and thus the theme author should be nuked from orbit for being a total idiot.

4- Same goes for any author stupid enough to use external image calls...

5- Until we actually *SEE* the text of the license, this is all hypothetical and there is no need for people to get quite so upset. So, why not ask the OP to provide the EXACT text of the license.

[Hj Ahmad Rasyid Hj Ismail]

Funny when people is claiming there is such a very restrictive theme license without proving its existence (unless he is creating one). Moreover, most of the codes in most custom themes here is derived from SMF theme (it is just a modified copy, whether extensive or not, isn't it?).

Hope the OP is satisfied now.

[Deaks]

Funny when people is claiming there is such a very restrictive theme license without proving its existence (unless he is creating one).

Why do we need to prove existence of one? we have stated we know no theme that exists with such license.  A custom license is easy to make that is as restrictive as stated.

[Hj Ahmad Rasyid Hj Ismail]

You must have misunderstood me, Runnic. Unless you are claiming it, which you are not (the one claiming it), you do not have to prove it.

Funny when people is claiming there is such a very restrictive theme license without proving its existence (unless he is creating one).

Why do we need to prove existence of one? we have stated we know no theme that exists with such license.  A custom license is easy to make that is as restrictive as stated.

[Deaks]

we will keep it to a miss understanding then