Well I can't copyright an idea. Other people can write a button widget that looks the same way that mine does - but my version will most likely be replications of other styles (XP, 95, Java etc). As long as someone doesn't up and lift my code and copies it, I'm fine with it.
The value in my widget pack will be that it is a complete suite of widgets that are designed to work with eachother, they're supported (I'll respond to questions, bugs fixes and requests, etc) and they are easily customizable - the themeing use of them will be documented. If Microsoft were to forbid me from packaging the XP or 95 stylings with the rest of my javascript code I could just distribute those separately because I'm selling JavaScript code, not images and colors. I imagine that many people would want to create their own themes for each widget to suite their colors and styling. The code's all done, all you'd really have to do is open up the 95 theme file, copy it, and change a few variables. Regards, Dan Steinman On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 02:49:50PM +0100, Richard Bennett wrote: > Hi, > Dan, great news that you're putting a commercial widget-pack on the market, > and nice that it's free for personal use. It's this kind of approach that > will allow dynAPI to be used by people who are less acquainted with the > inner-workings of DynAPI. > > Only problem I see, is how to avoid discussions about replicated > functionality in free widgets, for instance, I have been using > outline-dragging with skin-windows for almost a year now in my own work, but > because it was intranet-based, and didn't need to be cross-browser, I never > released any of the widgets (no time either), so if I now released a > skinwindow with outline-dragging, it would look like I had copied this idea > from Dan's widgets. (I actually copied it from windows) > So Dan, how do you see this working out? what happens if your widget-pack > contains some nice ideas (design or code-wise) that are taken up in free > widgets afterwards? (purposely or accidentally ). > Also, are there no copyright issues when replicating the windows 98/XP > interface? > > I think we still need basic building-block widgets with the dynAPI release, > mostly for testing the code with, and aside from that it would be great if > other people could build widget-packs, using the architecture of their > choice, and in separate branches in the CVS (without modifying the core > dynAPI files). > > I'd say, make a plan, do the ground-work, and then contact Jordi about > opening a new CVS branch. > > Cheers, Richard. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dynapi-Dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ _______________________________________________ Dynapi-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
