Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub • Hacker News Board

Re: Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub

#11

Post by e40 » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 4:32 PM UTC

What am I missing here?? I thought look and feel wasn't copyrightable. Didn't we learn that in the 80's?

Re: Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub

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Post by Artemis2 » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 4:38 PM UTC

lexicality wrote: post #7

Looking at the screenshot I thought "Wow, I can see why Github would be annoyed at that" before realising that was their proposed not-at-all-like-github-now-honestly new UI. Their demo looks like they just stole Github's CSS templates.

I had exactly the same reaction. There are more screenshots of their previous look in other posts:

https://gitbucket.github.io/gitbucket-news/images/gitbucket-... (there's even "GitBucket now supports current GitHub UI" in the post?!)

https://gitbucket.github.io/gitbucket-news/images/gitbucket-...

Re: Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub

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Post by carlosdp » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 4:38 PM UTC

lexicality wrote: post #7

Looking at the screenshot I thought "Wow, I can see why Github would be annoyed at that" before realising that was their proposed not-at-all-like-github-now-honestly new UI. Their demo looks like they just stole Github's CSS templates.

Yea I double checked the date to make sure this wasn't an April Fools, it looks exactly like Github...

Re: Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub

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Post by 91bananas » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 4:38 PM UTC

lexicality wrote: post #7

Looking at the screenshot I thought "Wow, I can see why Github would be annoyed at that" before realising that was their proposed not-at-all-like-github-now-honestly new UI. Their demo looks like they just stole Github's CSS templates.

For what it's worth, Github open sourced much of their CSS http://primercss.io/

Re: Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub

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Post by resoluteteeth » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 4:38 PM UTC

lexicality wrote: post #7

Looking at the screenshot I thought "Wow, I can see why Github would be annoyed at that" before realising that was their proposed not-at-all-like-github-now-honestly new UI. Their demo looks like they just stole Github's CSS templates.

Yeah, you could easily think you were looking at Github. I think it would be polite of them to change it a little bit more. Also, while it's natural for them to want to have a link to their Github account in the header of their site, as it is now (in combination with the extremely similar look) it almost makes them look like they are affiliated with Github.

Re: Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub

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Post by pfarnsworth » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 4:39 PM UTC

GitHub was not wrong to do this. Gitbucket's UI is confusingly similar to GitHub's so I have no qualms with the actions taken. The good thing is that they took a reasonable approach to this.

Re: Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub

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Post by dfc » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 4:39 PM UTC

> "It was saying GitHub does not allow to clone..."

One of the things they did not clone from GitHub is well written prose. GitHub's blog posts are always well written and enjoyable to read.

Re: Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub

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Post by smaili » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 4:40 PM UTC

I think it's kind of funny they start out by saying:

At first, we have never copied any materials from GitHub so this is not problem.

But later when you scroll to their footer it says:

GitBucket is a GitHub clone powered by Scala.

Re: Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub

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Post by skimmas » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 4:41 PM UTC

e40 wrote: post #11

What am I missing here?? I thought look and feel wasn't copyrightable. Didn't we learn that in the 80's?

I'm far from having any real legal knowledge on the matter, but I suppose copying the look and feel is different from looking so much the same that people might miss that they are two different projects. There are probably also some difuse border between look and feel and branding.

Re: Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub

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Post by ams6110 » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 4:42 PM UTC

lexicality wrote: post #7

Looking at the screenshot I thought "Wow, I can see why Github would be annoyed at that" before realising that was their proposed not-at-all-like-github-now-honestly new UI. Their demo looks like they just stole Github's CSS templates.

Really any website that uses one of the major CSS templates (bootstrap, etc) looks pretty much the same. I see a dozen websites a day that all have the same fonts, button styles, layout, etc.