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Chip Bennett @Paul – Fair enough. But, if the “Thesis” name isn’t trademarked (for the sake of argument, as I’m sure it must be trademarked), what remains as a cause for a legal suit? (Of course, if that “Thesis-like theme” also happened to incorporate the copyright-able content of Thesis, such as its cutsom functions, etc., then that is another matter altogether.) I would hazard a guess that the “Thesis-like theme” author could plagiarize the Thesis style sheet 100%, and still survive a legal challenge. I’m not aware of any legal precedent regarding plagiarism of a CSS file (or an HTML file for that matter) – although web plagiarism has been prevalent since the days of HTML 1.0. The bigger problem, though, for the potential plaintiff in such a case, is that the same output can be rendered exactly, using an entirely different style sheet.
Chip Bennett
@Paul –
Fair enough.
But, if the “Thesis” name isn’t trademarked (for the sake of argument, as I’m sure it must be trademarked), what remains as a cause for a legal suit?
(Of course, if that “Thesis-like theme” also happened to incorporate the copyright-able content of Thesis, such as its cutsom functions, etc., then that is another matter altogether.)
I would hazard a guess that the “Thesis-like theme” author could plagiarize the Thesis style sheet 100%, and still survive a legal challenge. I’m not aware of any legal precedent regarding plagiarism of a CSS file (or an HTML file for that matter) – although web plagiarism has been prevalent since the days of HTML 1.0.
The bigger problem, though, for the potential plaintiff in such a case, is that the same output can be rendered exactly, using an entirely different style sheet.
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