[Geany] Editor Theme - Vibrant Ink

[Jason Willson]

On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 21:18 +0100, Enrico Tröger wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:09:37 -0500, Jason wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 12:47 +0100, Enrico Tröger wrote:
> >> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:34:58 -0500, Jason Willson
> >> <jason.willson at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Hello,
> >> > 
> >> > I have packaged a port of Notepad++'s port of Textmate's Vibrant
> >> > Ink theme. I've posted it at Google Code:
> >> > 
> >> > http://code.google.com/p/geany-vibrant-ink-theme/
> >> 
> >> Cool.
> >> 
> >> Just a few questions / ideas:
> >> 
> >> - include a README in the tarball/zip archive to give some general
> >> information about the contents
> >> - add a screenshot on the project page to easily show the potential
> >> users how it looks like
> >> - are you sure the MIT license is applicable, you stated you ported
> >> it from Notepad++'s theme which is based on Textmate's one. There
> >> might be problems because Textmate is non-free AFAIK and Notepad++
> >> is probably licenced as GPLv2 (didn't check it). Though this doesn't
> >> necessarily mean the themes are licenced as well under these
> >> licences. Just check it.
> >> 
> >> Once the licence issue is solved, I'll add it to the
> >> http://www.geany.org/Download/Extras page.
> >> 
> >> Regards,
> >> Enrico
> >> 
> >> P.S.: Please don't hi-jack other threads.
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> >
> >Excellent advice. 
> >
> >License Issue:
> >I've emailed the author of the original Vibrant Ink theme for Textmate
> >and asked him for advice regarding the licensing of his theme as well
> >as the author of the port to Notepad++. I've temporarily licensed it
> >under the Artistic License/GPL because that seems the most compatible
> >with the GNU Free License that the port is licensed under.
> 
> Ok.
I've included two wiki pages which cite the email conversations I had
with the original author and the author who ported to Notepad++:

http://code.google.com/p/geany-vibrant-ink-theme/wiki/tm_theme_permission
http://code.google.com/p/geany-vibrant-ink-theme/wiki/npp_port_permission

> 
> 
> >Screenshot:
> >I've added a screenshot to the Project Home page.
> 
> I added it to http://www.geany.org/Download/Extras. Though the image is
> a bit big for the site. We could resize it using Wiki markup but then
> the alignment breaks (limitation in the Wiki markup). So it'd be nice
> if you could alternatively provide a smaller image, maybe scaled to
> 200px or 250px in width, so I could use that one for the page. If you
> can't or don't want to, just say so, then I put a smaller version on
> geany.org but I think it'd be nicer to use "your" image, so if you
> update it, you don't need me.

I've added a scaled-down version:
http://geany-vibrant-ink-theme.googlecode.com/files/vibrant_ink_screenshot_scaled.png

> 
> >Readme:
> >I'll work on that and have that included in the tarball soon.
> 
> Cool.
> 
Done.
> 
> >Thanks again Enrico. I apologize for hi-jacking another thread - I'm
> >new to mailing lists, so I don't exactly have the etiquette yet. I'll
> 
> Don't worry, just don't do it again :).
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Enrico
> 
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