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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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Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub
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Re: Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> Which would likely be a violation of anti-trust law, as we learned in the 90s
Whatever it is that you think you learned in the 90s that would somehow make that an antitrust violation is quite mistaken.
Re: Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Github is not a trust, in no sense. The closest part of it is the developer mindshare and hostility to a competitive hosting ecosystem for some incredibly irrational reason a lot of devs have. But even then, gitlab is a direct and successful competitor in the exact same space.
Re: Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub
#54What am I missing here?? I thought look and feel wasn't copyrightable. Didn't we learn that in the 80's?
Two things happening here. First, look and feel may in fact be an artistic expression, which is copyrightable, and cannot be copied under copyright law.
More importantly, though is that look and feel may be trade dress, which is a trademark issue, because it helps consumers identify the source of the service. Do you look at Gitbucket's website, which does the same thing at GitHub, and think for a second you're not sure if this is a service that GitHub made? That's trademark infringement.
We also learned about trade dress in the 80s. [1]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29wNCH4RBrk (Coming to America)
Re: Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub
#55Looking 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.
Yea, Gitlab and Bitbucket are pretty significantly different in look. Although those two were commercial entities that probably had the foresight to think about these issues.
Gitbucket looks like it's independent devs just trying to create a clone in Scala. It would be pretty cool to have a github alternative in scala :-)
Re: Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub
#56Looking 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-... https://gitbucket.github.io/gitbucket-news/images/gitbucket-...
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Re: Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub
#57That's their refresh? It looks exactly like GitHub...
No no... as you can clearly see, the buttons on Gitbucket have a border-radius of 6px while Github is 5.
Re: Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub
#58Note that this is blog post is not from "BitBucket" but "GitBucket", it took my brain longer than it should have to realise this.
Re: Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub
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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.
Fabric is the one I think : https://github.com/OfficeDev/Office-UI-Fabric
Re: Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub
#60Looking 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-... https://gitbucket.github.io/gitbucket-news/images/gitbucket-...
Not defending the ui aping, but GH css is open source:
http://primercss.io/layout/
They should have kept it proprietary if their lawyers are touchy about liberal open source licenses.
>Open source Available for use under the MIT license and built with open source projects like SCSS, Jekyll, Grunt, and more.