If you read or visit this blog often you will have noticed that we love and promote open source software and licence all of our releases of pligg templates under the Creative Commons License. It was brought to our attention earlier today in an nice email i received (Thanks Tremor) that a pligg developer of all people decided to edit one of our previous pligg templates CoolWater and breach the Creative Commons License it was released under originally from styleshout.com and ourselves to make a quick buck without giving credit to the original template author.
Tremor kindly pointed out that a template looking exceptionally similar to CoolWater had been released over at the Pligg Pro store for $19.99, the template in question is called Midnight Run by Chuck Roast. After looking more closely at the template and code-base it was pretty clear Chuck had done nothing more than edit the CoolWater template color’s in PhotoShop, move the sidebar to the left and removed the footer links to ourselves and styleshout.com which is in direct breach of The Creative Commons License.
As a thank you we decided to release DarkWater Pligg Template for free to the community. This is not the type of behaviour we want to see or would expect from an active open source developer. Credit where Credit is due in future please Mr Roast.
Tremor kindly pointed out that a template looking exceptionally similar to CoolWater had been released over at the Pligg Pro store for $19.99, the template in question is called Midnight Run by Chuck Roast. After looking more closely at the template and code-base it was pretty clear Chuck had done nothing more than edit the CoolWater template color’s in PhotoShop, move the sidebar to the left and removed the footer links to ourselves and styleshout.com which is in direct breach of The Creative Commons License.
As a thank you we decided to release DarkWater Pligg Template for free to the community. This is not the type of behaviour we want to see or would expect from an active open source developer. Credit where Credit is due in future please Mr Roast.
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Not that great of a template...