iPod touch / iPhone Optimized Style 3.7.4

[mac-warez]

This style was originally design by ElForro (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=132539) and I do not take all credit for this style.

The ElForro style is nice but I found that it has a lot of bugs on newer versions of vbulletin. I completely redesigned and I edited all of the templates with security token errors and display issues. This made it fully compatible with 3.7.4 and under with no bugs. I worked for a very long time on this so I thought I would share it with everyone.

Please let me know if you have any problems or suggestions so I can fix and update.

Updates in 1.0.1:
-Fixed footer
-Added gray version
-Hopefully removed unused modifications

[M-Tuning]

Nice, will see if this one's better then elforro's

[puertoblack2003]

nice job matches for my skin color :up:

[Brandon Sheley]

nice style, I may install this one
I need a better mobile device

[mac-warez]

Thanks

[puertoblack2003]

there's couple of things i found

<script type="text/javascript">
var admob_vars = {
pubid: 'a148e2b4a92511c', // publisher id
bgcolor: 'c5cbd4', // background color (hex)
text: '000000', // font-color (hex)
test: false // test mode, set to false if non-test mode
};
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://mm.admob.com/static/iphone/iadmob.js"></script>

in footer template

and for some reason in this product it has mod hacks attached to the template that i don't use like the "yet another award system"!!!

can you fix that and download without the customization and all parent styles? its better to download it through "customizations made only in this style"

[mac-warez]

Oh forgot to remove the ad before downloading. I did actually download as "customizations made only in this style." I was just about to put out another update but Ill add these things to it.

[dartho]

Hate to be a stick in the mud, but on the original thread for this style it states:Please keep all of my copyright info in this style. Please do NOT redistibute this style on any other sites! (It's free!)

Did you get permission from ElForro to republish his work under your name (almost half the styles templates (over 50) are the same as the original)? You've also removed his copyright notice from the footer template.

[mac-warez]

ok stick in the mud. ive taken elforros style and redone every template that is actually used in it. that little notice that you just had to copy and paste tells me not to post his style on any other sites. 1. its no longer the same style and 2. this isnt a different site. as far as the copyright goes, i used elforros style to build off of and improve. almost none of the stuff thats used in the style is the same as it was. i am considering this a whole new style so why would i put copyright information in that isnt mine?

[dartho]

I don't doubt you've made a lot of changes to it, and I commend you for sharing your modifications, but you can't just remove copyright notices and republish someone else's copyrighted material without permission - no matter how much work you think you've done on it.

[NoeJeko]

If he rebuilt the skin from the ground up, then he can legally remove the copyright notice as this is considered a "derivative work" under US Copyright law.


A “derivative work” is a work based upon one or more preexisting works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted. A work consisting of editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications which, as a whole, represent an original work of authorship, is a “derivative work”.

As long as it's an "original work of authorship", even if it's based upon an existing work, it's still legal. Us courts have upheld this multiple times:

Sega Enterprises, Ltd. v. Accolade, Inc.

Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc.

While the "derivative work" law on software is not completely clear, this does not fall under the realm of software since it is a design in question.

I'm not saying either side is right or wrong and only a code analysis could truly prove if the OP did indeed infringe upon the rights of the original author, but I had to clarify some misconceptions I've seen here about copyright law. As a coder, if someone saw a mod that I've written and completely designed their own - with similar functionality - from the ground up utilizing none of my original code then they are not in violation of anyt copyright I may claim over my work (unless such work is protected by a patent - and nothing here is).

My information is cited from Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work

[mac-warez]

Exactly. I am not violating anything considering its "derivative work."

[dartho]

I've just very briefly gone though both sets of code. It looks like you may have made some significant changes to 4 of 5 templates - the other 130 or so are pretty much the same as the original work by ElForro as is all CSS. Try having a look at yours and ElForro's xml files side by side and you'll soon see just how little is different from the original.

With my original post I wasn't intending on getting into this debate, I was just questioning if you had requested permission from the original author to use his code and remove his copyright notice which you had not. Send him a message, he may just say yes.