12-29-2021 09:02
12-29-2021 09:02
Hi,
I had a favorite clock face when I had an Ionic. Now I've got a sense and found out, that the developer discontinued support of the the clock face in 2019 ( see ClearBeam by Sam | Fitbit App Gallery)
As well, I found no other clock face which pleases my needs like that one.
I started devlopment of a clock face inspired by the old design for the use with the latest OS versions. Though it looks not quite the same and has not all the features implemented it looks equal enough, that I bother about copyright issues if I would publish it.
Is there a way to contact the developer to ask for permission to do a clock face with similar design? Is there a policy for discontinued clock faces, which would allow to publish a clock face with a similar design?
Thanks in advance.
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01-13-2022 15:49
01-13-2022 15:49
There's a fork of the original project still available here: https://github.com/amammay/ClearBeam
According to that version, the watchface was released under the MIT license, so copyright should not be an issue.
12-29-2021 09:39
12-29-2021 09:39
I found some hints about the developer of the clock face: https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Fitbit-App-Gallery/quot-Clear-Beam-quot-Watch-Face-Customization-Pro...
Seems @SunsetRunner is not active any longer 😢
12-29-2021 14:07
12-29-2021 14:07
Hello @viper3400
Clearbeam source code is freely available so i don't see any copyright issue here
12-30-2021 09:01
12-30-2021 09:01
Hello @SunsetRunner
Thanks for your answer and I assume you can access this repository?
When I follow the link I got a 404 (The page could not be found or you don't have permission to view it.) error.
At https://gitlab.com/private-software I can see no projects, as well. Seems all repositories are private?
Thanks for your support!
01-02-2022 01:37
01-02-2022 01:37
I found the Gitlab link for ClearBeam clockface source code listed in this repository here, which is actually linked from the Fitbit dev tutorials page https://dev.fitbit.com/build/tutorials/. Though, source code is not available any longer.
So the answer may be: "The source code was freely available ..." 😀
01-13-2022 15:49
01-13-2022 15:49
There's a fork of the original project still available here: https://github.com/amammay/ClearBeam
According to that version, the watchface was released under the MIT license, so copyright should not be an issue.
01-14-2022 07:11
01-14-2022 07:11
Thanks @cwiedmann for posting the link.