Dave Chapman wrote: > Jonas Häggqvist wrote: >> A while ago, it was decided that themes on the fabled theme site >> should be >> required to be licensed exclusively CC-BY-SA. This however, results in >> some problems. For one thing, we can't reuse parts of themes in the >> Rockbox defaults since they're part of the code, and hence >> GPLv2-or-later. > > I may be missing something obvious, but I don't understand the problem. > Themes are just data used by Rockbox, in the same way as fonts are, and > even audio files. How are they "part of the code", and hence required > to be GPL'd ?
Isn't the default theme hardwired, rather than loaded from file? If not, then getting permission to switch "our" themes to CC-BY-SA seems the simplest way forward. -- Jonas Häggqvist rasher(at)rasher(dot)dk
