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Licence and copyrights

11 years 8 months ago - 11 years 8 months ago
#8655
I am working through the code searching & replacing Eventlist with JEM. On this way, I saw many different "disclaimers".

Instead of having 10 different, we should use one for all ;)

Until now, it reads like
* @package Joomla
* @subpackage Eventlist
* @copyright (C) 2005 - 2009 Christoph Lukes
* @license GNU/GPL, see LICENSE.php
*
* Eventlist is maintained by the community located at
* www.joomlaeventmanager.net
*
* Eventlist is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License 2
* as published by the Free Software Foundation.
*
* Eventlist is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with Eventlist; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

My suggestion is
* @package JEM
* @copyright (C) 2013 - 2013 joomlaeventmanager.net
* @copyright (C) 2005 - 2013 Christoph Lukes
* @license GNU/GPL, see LICENSE.php
*
* JEM is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License 2
* as published by the Free Software Foundation.
*
* JEM is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with JEM; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

Another note, I looked how other components handle this. Often, they use a much shorter version, basically the first section. What do you think?

I would just use the first section and omit the following two, because we also point to the LICENSE.php which holds all information. So we can reduce the blow up of every file.

Leave some comments before I commit :D
Repository: Github // Issues: Github // Languages: Transifex
Last edit: 11 years 8 months ago by diesl.

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Re: Licence and copyrights

11 years 8 months ago
#8656
you've a good point there,.

I think there should be a reference to Eventlist, something in the line that it is based on Eventlist and (c)2013-2013 is basically the same as (c)2013.

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Re: Licence and copyrights

11 years 8 months ago
#8658
You are right, I left no reference that is was eventlist before, my fault ;) Reformulating Preambles is harder than I thought ;)

Just thinking how to add it ...
Repository: Github // Issues: Github // Languages: Transifex

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Re: Licence and copyrights

11 years 8 months ago
#8659
Hi Diesl, Bluefox,

I have found some info that I shared before, about forked extensions. Please verify here under "H" and here .

About copyright:
Forked project must respect copyright law

Acknowledgment: the original copyright holder must be noted in the code files based on the original
The XML installer file must include a comment on the original extension name

Its considered a good practice to provide a link to the original extension URL

So, as long as we refer to Eventlist, Christoph Lukes and Schlu.net we should be fine. Additionally, in the installer XML file there should be a reference to Eventlist / schlu.net / Christoph

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Re: Licence and copyrights

11 years 8 months ago
#8660
Yes, you are right :) Forgot about the Forked Extensions rules

What do you think of the following
* @package JEM
* @copyright (C) 2013 - 2013 joomlaeventmanager.net
* @copyright (C) 2005 - 2013 Christoph Lukes
* @license GNU/GPL, see LICENSE.php
* @link www.joomlaeventmanager.net
*
* JEM is based on Eventlist by Christoph Lukes ( www.schlu.net )
*
* JEM is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License 2
* as published by the Free Software Foundation.
*
* JEM is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with JEM; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
Repository: Github // Issues: Github // Languages: Transifex

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Re: Licence and copyrights

11 years 8 months ago
#8661
I think it's sufficient if we put
* JEM is based on Eventlist by Christoph Lukes ( www.schlu.net )

in the installer xml file...

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