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Re: Dual license the colours of the Modus themes?
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Dual license the colours of the Modus themes? |
Date: |
Mon, 09 May 2022 09:32:28 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> In this case, "just their colors" means to publish a page on my website
> like protesilaos.com/modus-themes-colors that contains a table like the
> following and which states it is distributed under CC0:
>
> | name | value |
> |-------------------+---------|
> | bg-main | #ffffff |
> | fg-main | #000000 |
> | red | #a60000 |
> | magenta-alt-other | #5317ac |
>
> [ All values will be taken from the variables
> modus-themes-operandi-colors, modus-themes-vivendi-colors. ]
Yes, you can definitely do that without any worries.
[ As mentioned by someone else, it's not even clear if copyright can
apply to this anyway, but feel free to declare it as covered by CC0,
just in case.
More specifically, I suspect copyright can apply to the specific
text/format/ordering you use in the above file, but not to the
conceptual associations between the concept of main background color
and the color "#ffffff", etc...
AFAIU Copyright does not apply to ideas, only to their concrete
expression.
IOW You can also put such a table in the ELisp files and I think the
law would allow people to use the underlying design regardless of the
license we use for the file. ]
Stefan