Re: Stylesheet License?

On 10 Feb 2012, at 1:33 PM, David Wood wrote:

> Hi Ian,
> 
> Callimachus is an Open Source project that allows people to navigate, visualize and build applications on top of Linked Data.  Callimachus has several CSS styles that it comes with out of the box.  We would like to create a variant of the community group style for use as an alternative application style in Callimachus-based applications.
> 
> The W3C logos would note be reused.  Frankly, we are mostly interested in the colors and layout. (the general layout of community group pages are already very close to Callimachus' default layout since it is so commonly used).  We can ensure that we change any particular elements that you are concerned about; just let us know.
> 
> Does that address your concerns?

Thank you for the information, David.

In general I like reuse! My only concern is potential confusion. If the styles are "different enough" than the Community Group site and the W3C branding is not used, then it is probably fine. I'd be happy to look at a sample.

Ian

> 
> Regards,
> Dave
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> 
> 
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> On Feb 9, 2012, at 17:55, Ian Jacobs wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 9 Feb 2012, at 4:50 PM, David Wood wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi guys,
>>> 
>>> The Callimachus Project (an Open Source project) is interested in using a variation of the CSS stylesheet that W3 is using on:
>>> http://www.w3.org/community/
>>> 
>>> Can you please tell me the license for that stylesheet?  Thanks!
>> 
>> Hi David,
>> 
>> I will happily weigh in if you send me a screen shot of what it looks like. Thanks!
>> 
>> Ian
>> 
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Dave
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