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Offline johnno56

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Possible legal advice
« on: March 30, 2022, 03:28:16 pm »
There are some of the IDE colour themes that I like. My question is: Are there any legal reasons as to why I cannot use those themes in other IDE's? I do not want to be "stepping on toes".... Please advise...

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Re: Possible legal advice
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2022, 04:00:43 pm »
I am not a lawyer but no way! Themes are meant to be used.

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Re: Possible legal advice
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2022, 04:11:41 pm »
QB64 is open source and free.  You can branch off from the repo and make yourself a custom QB64-Steves version, if you want.  There's absolutely nothing wrong with adding, editing, or removing parts from the source for your own needs. 

If you can completely take and modify all the rest of QB64, I can't possibly fathom any reason why you can't do the same with the color schemes.

If you're *really* paranoid about the issue, just change a single value by one point.  Instead of comments being 255 red, 255 green, 84 blue, make the values 255, 255, 85.  That's completely different!  LOL!!
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Re: Possible legal advice
« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2022, 04:16:39 pm »
Thanks guys. Much appreciated.

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Re: Possible legal advice
« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2022, 05:21:35 pm »
Of course if any of you guys code anything not in SCREEN 0, you'll hear from my lawyer, Bobastic Baskin, Esq.

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Re: Possible legal advice
« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2022, 05:39:06 pm »
... of course, if I ever use Screen 0, I will keep your warning in mind... the 'Esq." was a nice touch...  lol
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