O.P. RE: [Discussion] Skinning copyrights, cloning, and idea recycling
So, Sunshine and Nile, the way you do it is the way I do it as well, and surely as a prerelease skinner I got no problem that my (+Bram's) skin is being used as an example, as so-to-say a basis class where other skins are inherited from. But, as you pointed out, (1) some graphics are simply not worthy of claiming them as one's own, and (2) it's an honor to see people like the idea and techs and use them for their own ideas. As for complete cloning, I simply had been happy if Miamoto had asked me before. What we actually are is a living resource of messenger skinning topics, and I didn't know the number of users asking me, how should I do this, how to solve that... Our skins are a living example, and much better than any dry example in the skinning docs (although Patch did do much work with the docs).
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