Hello,
We are a small company developing an open source (GPL'd) inventory tracking system called Tracmor (http://code.google.com/p/tracmor). We are just now preparing to build a public website for our project (both commercial and community targeted) and we like the simple clean layout of the fedoraproject.org website. We would like to request permission to use the html/css layout from fedoraproject.com home page as a starting point for our site. We would not reuse any of the images or content or even color schemes from the fedora website, but only the page layout. If this is something you would be willing to permit, please let me know. Thank you in advance for your consideration.
Justin Sinclair Tracmor, LLC
p.s. I've been a Fedora user since the project began. Thanks for a great distro!
Do we explicitly open source license our CSS files?
If not, shouldn't we?
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 16:48 -0800, Justin Sinclair wrote:
Hello,
We are a small company developing an open source (GPL'd) inventory tracking system called Tracmor (http://code.google.com/p/tracmor). We are just now preparing to build a public website for our project (both commercial and community targeted) and we like the simple clean layout of the fedoraproject.org website. We would like to request permission to use the html/css layout from fedoraproject.com home page as a starting point for our site. We would not reuse any of the images or content or even color schemes from the fedora website, but only the page layout. If this is something you would be willing to permit, please let me know. Thank you in advance for your consideration.
Justin Sinclair Tracmor, LLC
p.s. I've been a Fedora user since the project began. Thanks for a great distro!
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
Do we explicitly open source license our CSS files?
If not, shouldn't we?
AFAIK yes though it'd be good to make sure we're better about labeling our licenses. I'd assume the cla allows us to re-license (or first time license) everything at http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/fedora-web.git/
-Mike
Mike McGrath wrote:
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
Do we explicitly open source license our CSS files?
If not, shouldn't we?
AFAIK yes though it'd be good to make sure we're better about labeling our licenses. I'd assume the cla allows us to re-license (or first time license) everything at http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/fedora-web.git/
You can license any design or graphics I've done for Fedora any way you want or need.
I would have no problem with Justin using any bits that I designed. The one thing I might ask (optional) is that he link back to fpo.
~m
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 22:21 -0500, Máirín Duffy wrote:
Mike McGrath wrote:
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
Do we explicitly open source license our CSS files?
If not, shouldn't we?
AFAIK yes though it'd be good to make sure we're better about labeling our licenses. I'd assume the cla allows us to re-license (or first time license) everything at http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/fedora-web.git/
You can license any design or graphics I've done for Fedora any way you want or need.
I would have no problem with Justin using any bits that I designed. The one thing I might ask (optional) is that he link back to fpo.
We could use the CC BY-SA. CSS seems to fall in that category, no warranty assurance required, etc., and it clearly requires some attribution in the reusage.
Karsten
On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 23:39 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
We could use the CC BY-SA. CSS seems to fall in that category, no warranty assurance required, etc., and it clearly requires some attribution in the reusage.
That sounds like a very good idea.
I seem to have deleted the original question in this thread. Anyone have it to reply back?
We can tell him it's OK to use the CSS, that we intend to make that clear by stating the license on the http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Websites page as well as within future versions of the CSS, and be sure to do as he says, that is, not infringe upon any Fedora marks.
Or should we have a discussion on f-websites-l first? I'm unclear if this email actually goes to that list. :)
- Karsten
Justin Sinclair wrote:
Hello,
We are a small company developing an open source (GPL'd) inventory tracking system called Tracmor (http://code.google.com/p/tracmor). We are just now preparing to build a public website for our project (both commercial and community targeted) and we like the simple clean layout of the fedoraproject.org website. We would like to request permission to use the html/css layout from fedoraproject.com home page as a starting point for our site. We would not reuse any of the images or content or even color schemes from the fedora website, but only the page layout. If this is something you would be willing to permit, please let me know. Thank you in advance for your consideration.
You are allowed to use the CSS in our website under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license. Essentially use it freely but give us credit and we appreciate linking back to our website. We will clarify the licensing details in our website soon.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Websites
Note that using the Fedora marks is only allowed under our trademark guidelines so I would suggest that you avoid using them in any way. Since you are a Fedora user, it would be great to have your software maintained in our repository too
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join
Also we offer hosting for Free and open source projects at http://fedorahosted.org. Completely free and we support several distributed source code management systems like Git, Mercurial and Bzr. Just something for you to consider.
Rahul
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