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0 pointsw1ntermute12y ago0 comments

You can easily get the Svbtle theme in Wordpress by using wp-svbtle: http://wp-svbtle.themeskult.com/

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I don't like the Svbtle style but I don't think you should suggest using something that stole the design and is not condoned by the original author.

It's so funny how outraged hacker news becomes when a startups design is stolen but when dcurtis made svbtle a private platform they were all to happy to have people steal the design.

eropple12y ago

I've never followed this brouhaha--was it stolen (i.e., was code lifted from svbtle) or is it a reimplementation?

I mean, to me it looks pretentious and lame and I'd never use it, but it seems like it'd be legally actionable if there was actual copyright violations in the offing.

bigiain12y ago

From vague recollection - there was some pretty damning evidence when it launched that entire swathes of css were direct copies - not just functional equivalence, but identical class/id/selector names.

(Note: this vague recollection might not have been about the particular WordPress theme in the parent comment, but I do recall looking at one of the early Svbtle WP clones and seeing this)

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