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> Purple should never be used outside of officially endorsed Heroku products or without explicit permission.

then why opensource it at first place? Bootstrap became popular even though it used some Twitter design styles. How is it a bad thing?

When you write this in the lib description,you're making sure nobody's going to use that.



It isn't open source to begin with.

> The Purple source code and implementation details are limited to internal Heroku employees.


So was this really intended to be shared? Did someone "leak" it per se? or did they just want to show it off as best practice?


The red box has some text that says:

> It is publicly documented in order to illustrate our design philosophy and process.




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