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Personally, I'd love to submit my work to the repository, but I wanted to get it in a more usable state first (at least, for more than one resolution).
Now that you mention copyrights, I'm not sure about the font and sounds that I'm using - I downloaded them from one of the lcars resource sites out there, but I don't know what the real license status is on them. However, all my graphics are original.
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Forgive Double Post (This forum really needs an edit button!)
But a thought occurs to me,
Seeing other people talking about cloning existing skins, and the legallities (sp?) of it; Can we actually make & release an LCARS based skin?
Although I have been given consent from the owner of LCARSCOM (see previous posts) we don't have the consent of Paramount, who legally own Star Trek and therefore LCARS in name and probably design?
Can someone clear this up before we end up in some kinda law-suit?
NickyZero - Currently making LCARS for XBMC
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That's a good point. I would hope that these types of efforts are seen as homage rather than infringement, but who knows.
I remember similar concerns over OSX related skins a long time ago; didn't Apple try to sue a bunch of people for making OSX visual styles for Windows? I assume that Apple ended up losing that battle, judging from all the OSX skins that people made (and still make).
Perhaps this situation is similar?
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Yeah as long as you not actually directly ripping the graphics and sounds from their videos and other media they have released and making them yourself or getting them from other people who have done so its useally fine.
Take the mc360 skin for example Microsoft had no problem with it as long as we made it all ourselves and didn't just rip their images from the 360 hdd
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Are you guys still trying to work on this? I finally rescued the skin files from my partially completed LCARS skin from over a year ago and it's kind of reignited my desire to make this skin. I'd be happy to work with you guys if you're interested.
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I would like to work on it, but my jobs don't leave me very much free time anymore :/
It's too bad nobody has made a nice skin editor yet - things would go a lot faster if I didn't have to relearn the xml format every time I want to sit down for an hour to work on my skin.
timdog82001, you or anyone else is free to use my skin code and graphics if you wish. I'm probably not going to have any significant free time for the next few months, but I'll be happy to chime in with help when I can. Maybe we can get a skin to the point where it can be 'good enough' for the skinning svn, and then we can just work on it as time permits afterwards?
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Yeah, I don't have a ton of free time with school, but I'd still like to make this a reality eventually. Would you (and NickyZero, if he's still around) like to meet up in irc or msn messenger or something and talk about it?