How it is possible that “Vlogpixer” publishes my “Aura-Dark-Icons” icons: Aura-Dark-Icons - pling.com
He has published them as original, here: Aura-Dark-Icons... - KDE Store
Is that all right?
Amazing!
Yes, and the user is also publicly linking to your repository as the source. These are exactly the things that cause us problems and effort. And we also take a very critical view of these clones, and we don’t want to see them here. But from the beginning.
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we think the copyright is clearly owned by you @l4k1. So you can decide what happens with your work.
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now the other side. You released it under a GPL licence. And as far as my understanding is, the licence allows what is happening. I am not an expert. Perhaps there is someone in the community who can explain this in more detail. Maybe I’m wrong.
- From a platform operator perspective, we have no interest in encouraging or supporting free riding. I would take a look at our terms and conditions to see if we have a paragraph about this. If not, maybe it’s time to add one. But this can take a while …
Thanks for your reply, dschinn-de
However, it’s not just about my themes:
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“Apple Ventura”: Apple Ventura - KDE Store (Author: zayronxio)
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“Whitesur Dark”: WhiteSur Dark - KDE Store (Author: vinceliuice)
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“Catalina Dark”: Catalina Dark - KDE Store (Author: zayronxio)
I am not an expert either, I would understand that the modification of Themes and stated the source, but to mark that these are “original” Themes, I don’t understand.
Secondly, if that would become a practice, and be allowed, then the work of all other authors would be meaningless.
What about what’s “Ethical”. Taking the “Ethical” route changes the narrative, but it seems that “Ethical” is a lost art.
This situation has gotten out of control, the fraudulent user is now copying everything, with the same github repository, same captures and even the same product, I propose that literal copies do not generate payment, maybe that discourages this unethical user
Now Freepixa is doing the same with multiple themes, it must be the same user.
@zayronXIO : Yes, we discussed something like that in the team as well. What we all didn’t like was that such a user could still fish off the downloads. But as a first step we will implement something like that.