If you read or visit this blog often you will have noticed that we love and promote open source software and license all of our releases of pligg templates under the Creative Commons License. It was brought to our attention earlier today in an nice email i received (Thanks Tremor) that a pligg developer of all people decided to edit one of our previous pligg templates CoolWater and breach the Creative Commons License it was released under originally from styleshout.com and ourselves to make a quick buck without giving credit to the original template author.
Tremor kindly pointed out that whilst i was in hospital a template looking exceptionally similar to CoolWater had been released over at the Pligg Pro store for $19.99, the template in question is called Midnight Run by Chuck Roast. After looking more closely at the template it was pretty clear Chuck had done nothing more than edit our free CoolWater template color’s in PhotoShop, move the sidebar to the left and removed the footer links to ourselves and styleshout.com which is in direct breach of The Creative Commons License under which CoolWater was released.
As a thank you we decided to spend 30mins editing CoolWater and release DarkWater Pligg Template for free to the community. This is not the type of behaviour we want to see or would expect from an active open source developer. Credit where Credit is due in future please Mr Roast.
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Download and Support: Free Pligg Template DarkWater v9.9.0
Update: Pligg.com have now removed the offending template by ChuckRoast from their Pro Store, i think thanks might goto YankiDank but we cannot be sure as no explanation or apology was ever put forward by any member of the pligg team regarding this issue. The closest we got was a post by YankiDank over at the pligg.com forums.
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Lincoln - who has written 182 posts on Social CMS Buzz.
Founder of Social CMS Buzz and a fan of all things open source, social and design related.
I think I could see myself using your new theme.
Will a 9.9 templates work with 9.8.2 sites?
Just being lazy, have you done a post on upgrading?