[themes] YUI library for themers

[Victor Trac]

The current BSD license basically allows you to do whatever you want with
the original code, without even getting consent of the original
authors.  According to Wikipedia, you can relicense BSD code under the GPL
(although not the other way around:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_and_GPL_licensing

-Victor

On 5/10/06, Will Wyatt <will at willwyatt.com> wrote:
> This brings up another question I've had about licensing. These tools from
> Yahoo are released under a BSD license. If I were to include one of these
> tools in my module or theme, could it ever be included in Drupal since
> Drupal requires the GPL for modules and themes? (at least I think I read
> that somewhere).
>
>
> On 5/10/06, Theodore Serbinski <tss24 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> > The Yahoo! UI Library: Grids CSS ->
> >
> >    http://com1.devnet.scd.yahoo.com/yui/grids/
> >
> > So what does everyone think?
> >
> > Upon my initial review, I'm liking this. With 3 files, it would be
> > relatively easy to ensure cross browser compatibility among basic
> > design and layout.
> >
> > * grids.css - makes it super easy to specify a 1 - 4 column website.
> > By default this is fixed width for 800x600 browsers, but you could
> > easily tweak this.
> > * font.css - normalizes fonts across browsers
> > * reset.css - normalizes elements across browsers (h1, ul, li,
> > etc...), dealing with spacing and sizing
> >
> > I think for many designs, these are pretty useful base CSS files to
> > build upon. I plan on testing these out in 2 upcoming sites I'm
> > working on.
> >
> > And yes, the obvious caveat, this will never replace a true designer,
> > but for something quick and easy, I don't think you can go wrong.
> >
> > ted
> >
> >
> >
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