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2011-06-06, 01:50
(This post was last modified: 2011-06-06, 02:14 by KiSUAN.)
It's not about copy, skinners take ideas & stuff of each other all the time within XBMC and you don't see anyone making a fuzz, at most they ask for recognition, but profiting from others work, well there we have some big problems.
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Create a video response for that YouTube video replicating what they did with XBMC and Alaska Revisited. Call them out on it. You'll (most likely) get nowhere with it, but it will draw the public's attention to this abhorrent behaviour.
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Doesn't the license say that it's allowed to use the work, redistribute, or basically do whatever you want with it IF you redistribute it under the same or similar license. Doesn't that mean they should make their work publicly available, so the community can profit from their work?
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if it is so obvious that things are "stolen" why don't you just try it in an "open" way, wich would reflect the philosophie behind xbmc and its strong community much better, instead of getting a lawyer to act against them.
so why don't you just write an open letter to the company saying: "lets face it you know you have borrowed code, ideas and work, so why don't you donate for xbmc or help the whole community by becoming a partner? if not you have to do things on your own, because from that point on licenses of skins will be changed. How about adding a credits site in settings menu? or aren't you able to do such easy things?" ... something like that, in a more polished way and than publish it on xbmc.org?
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i think it's the other way around. Common sense says that they have to do that first instead using something free for profit.
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Hitcher Wrote:Spurred on by this thread and this video which clearly shows that Alaska Revisited is being used.
What ways are there to protect a skin from being used in a commercial product without the creators consent?
Given your
license , you've already given permission under given restrictions. Only thing you can do now are:
- change your
license to prevent commercializing in the future;
- request attribution and sharing of their code.
That's all you can do.
My simple advise for:
skinners >> use the non commercial license;
Addon coders >> Use at least GPL v3. stay away from gpl v2.
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vanMiez Wrote:no doubt about that... 
but obviously it didn't happen and as i understood the license of alaska right there is no real chance to stop them except making there bad habits public...
The problem lies with skinners using licenses which can be used commercial but in the meanwhile they don't want that....
OK, I see the similarity now, image border and glass overlay+layout. No coincidence there, clear rip-off. 
