http://www.icyphoenix.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2149&p=27436#p27436
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moreteavicar
Mon 07 Apr, 2008 16:15

Re: Copyright
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On the topic of lamers in general removing the copyright notices - you can of course catch them out if you view the page source - unless they are a little bit more clever than changing overall_footer, you will see all the phpbb, xs styles and icy phoenix comments that litter the templates... and of course, the actual names of directories of where things are located gives the game away ;)

I always think Vjacheslav Trushkin's copyright notice is a bit extreme (why it's called extreme styles no doubt!) I mean, yes, you don't want somebody duplicating your hard work and passing it off as their own - but if somebody takes an existing theme of his and modifies / improves it to the extent that its almost completely re-written, then its not really his theme anymore, so why demand that people beg permission from him to use the theme they effectively created... and really, here, you don't have any choice to create a theme for XS/icy from scratch, there are just too many things, and at some point all coders borrow code ideas and snippets from elsewhere, and adapt to their needs, I bet including Trushkin himself. I don't know what similarity there is now in mg_themes and any theme written by Trushkin, yet his copyright notice still exists... (in comments in source) :? To have such strict copyright notices, I wonder if he works at Microsoft... ;)