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Re: Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub

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Post by budu3 »

dfc wrote: post #17

> "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.

To be fair to them they are not native English speakers. I would have an equally hard time (of not impossible) writing well written Japanese prose.

Re: Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub

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Post by icebraining »

smoyer wrote: post #23

I've been using GitBucket since about version 0.5.0 and I honestly liked the GitBucket UI better before the push to look just like GitHub. Feature-wise, it's behind both GitHub and GitLab, but for company internal repositories, it also doesn't me to risk the security of my server by running RoR. I lost a server to hackers (temporarily) due to an RoR vulnerability that was exposed through Redmine, so perhaps I'm a bit…

If it's just for internal use, why not close off external access or put an authentication layer "over" the application? I have my personal services protected with Basic Auth¹, it's just a matter of running a command to create the passwords file and adding two lines to your Nginx config.

¹ With HTTPS, of course, but that should be used anyway, to protect the app's own authentication.

Re: Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub

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Post by levemi »

smaili wrote: post #18

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.

Clone when used in this sense doesn't mean copying. Copying pretty much means re-using the exact same source, like literally copy and pasted. A clone is just something that does the same thing as something else. I'm not saying GitBucket didn't copy or take code, I'm just saying that calling something a clone doesn't usually convey that they took code, it's just that they're very similar in what they do as another thing. You could say Gitlab is a GitHub clone but it doesn't look anything like GitHub (although it did at one time).

Re: Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub

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Post by joesmo »

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?

It's not. The CSS is copyrightable, but there's absolutely nothing from stopping another site from copying the design. The Github logo is probably trademarked and a competitor could not use that or any similar trademark, but that's a different issue.

Re: Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub

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Post by [deleted] »

2pointsomone wrote: post #30
91bananas wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Well, this reminds of the Microsoft Office UI (I think its called Ribbon?). I think the rule around that is that people can make apps that mimic that UI EXCEPT in the case where the apps are direct competitors. Seems to be the case here too.

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Re: Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub

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Post by icebraining »

lovelearning wrote: post #26
pfarnsworth wrote: post #16

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.

I'm not sure I understand how someone can get confused between a reputed SaaS like GitHub and something called GitBucket. Don't software engineers look at URLs and page titles nowadays?

What makes you think only software engineers use Github?

Re: Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub

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Post by justinsb »

deckar01 wrote: post #22
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?

It is a violation of GitHub's ToS. GitBucket is hosted on GitHub.

Which would likely be a violation of anti-trust law, as we learned in the 90s.

I hope GitBucket posts the email from Github.

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