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Naturally, one would like to have the same css look for forgot_password.php and request_new_password.php as for login.php. Alas, probably in the rush of development, css was in-lined to those files, not referenced in an external css file.

I can get around that by replicating account/forgot_password.php and account/request_new_password.php in myTheme. Swapping new inline styles for old works. However, since I want to redistribute my theme and am a bit uncertain whether this begins to tread on licensing concerns, shall I put in a feature request to externalize the styles?

Or is it okay to replicate/override php files as well as css files in custom themes and share with others?

I surely am assuming I can share cascading css files, because I am already doing that .... !

Hi, Russ. Thanks for asking. I honestly don’t have an answer.. let me ask my other team members. Thanks in advance for your patience.

No worries.

On the licensing question, redistributing a few files for theming does not seem to pose a technical issue for protecting overall code, unless any such redistribution exposes EllisLab to legal defense problems should others indeed redistribute the entire enchilada.

For basic theming plus redistribution broadly, my only need is to touch files which affect the overall look (hence the few account files). I would be just as glad to avoid any ‘contact’ with theme files native to Default, except css files.

For a functional redo of the CP (with distribution), many more files would come into play.

To share either/both of the above with a single client (look and/or functional rework) is already acceptable so far as I understand things

Russ, can you direct your licensing questions to sales@expressionengine please? Thanks.

That’s beyond my need/intent. I’m glad just to use CSS files and will make a feature request for those two files to have external CSS references. For now, will stick to login.css.

Hi Russ,

Okay, please do that and I’ll close this thread.

Cheers

Greg