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<blockquote data-quote="infinite.loop" data-source="post: 600973" data-attributes="member: 10723">MediaPortal stable versions have a release cycle of ~1 year.This means that all skins and plugins which are included in MediaPortal, only receive an update once in the year.The team concluded that it is the best approach to keep the main apllication simple and stable.Our great community provides plugins which extend the useability and skins for every taste.By doing that, Community Developers and Designers have the freedom to create whatever they want, and release new versions whenever they want.If all &quot;most used&quot; Community Plugins &amp; Skins would be bundled with MP, then they would loose both.GPL does &quot;stop&quot; you.As soon a 3rd party intends to releases a custom build (fork) of an OpenSource application, then they have to change the name of the application to make it&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; distinguishable from the source.It is not allowed to distribute it to the public under the same name.While you would &quot;only&quot; create a package with no sourcecodechanges, the same rule applies. And Team MediaPortal would not give any support for such a release.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="infinite.loop, post: 600973, member: 10723"] MediaPortal stable versions have a release cycle of ~1 year. This means that all skins and plugins which are included in MediaPortal, only receive an update once in the year. The team concluded that it is the best approach to keep the main apllication simple and stable. Our great community provides plugins which extend the useability and skins for every taste. By doing that, Community Developers and Designers have the freedom to create [U]whatever[/U] they want, and release new versions [U]whenever[/U] they want. If all [I]"most used"[/I] Community Plugins & Skins would be bundled with MP, then they would loose both. GPL does "stop" you. As soon a 3rd party intends to releases a custom build (fork) of an OpenSource application, then they have to change the name of the application to make it distinguishable from the source. It is not allowed to distribute it to the public under the same name. While you would[I] "only"[/I] create a package with no sourcecodechanges, the same rule applies. And Team MediaPortal would not give any support for such a release. [/QUOTE]

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