yoghurtfarmer
Well-known member
Sequence of events
1. Someone contacted me asking if I was willing to sell my xenforo style/templates/css.
2. I declined, stating that I want to maintain a unique look for my forum. Encouraged him to create his own and to dig around style properties etc. I said that if he did take some elements of my design that I would appreciate a link back. Also pointed him towards Flexile.
3. He said thanks and says that he was basically looking to replicate the header style which is also present in Flexile.
Yesterday, I got this in my inbox:
My forum
His forum
First of all, I'm glad he consulted me and provided updates. I also understand that my style doesn't incorporate any groundbreaking changes to the default but it's obviously way too similar to my own. He didn't have to replicate the colours, margins, padding, etc exactly. It's more than "just inspired" if you ask me.
How should I handle this?
1. Someone contacted me asking if I was willing to sell my xenforo style/templates/css.
2. I declined, stating that I want to maintain a unique look for my forum. Encouraged him to create his own and to dig around style properties etc. I said that if he did take some elements of my design that I would appreciate a link back. Also pointed him towards Flexile.
3. He said thanks and says that he was basically looking to replicate the header style which is also present in Flexile.
Yesterday, I got this in my inbox:
Hi again
I just wanted to give you an update on this.
I took you up on your earlier suggestion and played around with a few different themes including flexile. I spent a fair amount of weeks modifying these themes (im no html/css expert) but could never get them to look how i wanted them to.
I finally gave in to temptation a few days ago and ended up borrowing the main elements of your forum. I did this by hand coding the various CSS files and it took me over 10 hours over several days to complete (so it was no quick and easy task).I also tried to not make it look identical (Header background color is different for example).
I also added this to the global footer shown on every page on the site:
Theme inspired by Forum Vancouver
And linked the "forum vancauver [sic]" text to your homepage. If you want me to change this line to anything else, please let me know.
I hope you don't feel like you've have been cheated here. I tried to give you full credit for it on my site in the footer, and made other changes to the design. But please let me know what you think regardless.
Looking forward to hearing back from you.
Thanks
My forum
His forum
First of all, I'm glad he consulted me and provided updates. I also understand that my style doesn't incorporate any groundbreaking changes to the default but it's obviously way too similar to my own. He didn't have to replicate the colours, margins, padding, etc exactly. It's more than "just inspired" if you ask me.
How should I handle this?