Doesn't it suck when you have this great skin, only it's a port of a skin that was sold, and you have to email everyone and their grandmother for permission, and you hit a brick wall when one of the authors ignores your emails?



I'm referring to Juni's ToonXp skin for Facelift. The great skin that never was. It's great, but unfortunately he never got passed the screenshot phase since one of the authors ignored his emails...

Of course I guess I'm only venting here. The author has the right to accept or deny or ignore whatever he wants. It's his work. If he wants to accept Static's port but reject Juni's... it sucks, but it's fair I suppose. It woulda been nice to have a reason.

Also understand that this is me venting and not Juni. I feel Juni's skin is better than Static's, and it's difficult for me to understand why Juni's wasn't up to par. This post is also on behalf of the many users of Facelift over at Brighthand who begged for this skin after seeing the screenshot.

It's just that - I dunno - are we getting perhaps a bit too anal with this whole permission thing? Back when Juni skinned for Linux no one cared who borrowed what, as long as the work was good. Now I'll be the first to say that perhaps it was a bit too open, but now is it becoming too closed off?

I don't want to attract flames, I'm just - ya know - thinking aloud. Does anyone long for the old days when ports of skins were ok and all good?