Theme credits

mikem · 04-19-2003, 03:18 PM

I guess I should have been more clear on my reply.

It's a fine line with all this Copyright info being retained.
Some argue that Nuke is GNU thus removing the copyright should NOT be frowned upon.
However, this is deceptive, because even though Nuke IS released under the GNU, it is a Program that was developed by ONE person and is provided for FREE to THOUSANDS of users.
To ask that a copyright be retained is a very small thing!

I don't think it's a huge problem, to move it, not remove it, HOWEVER, I should say that I personally PREFER all Copyrights to remain AS-IS.

We can debate this all day long until we're blue in the face, and as we all know, there will never be a firm solution.

What will happen in the end if users CONTINUE to remove or move the copyrights, it will result in Nuke not being FREE anymore or the themes/mods/hacks etc. that are made for Nuke not be free anymore as well.
If a user doesn't care about this, then of course we will ahve the good 'ole scenario.."A couple bad apples ruins it for the whole bunch"

In the end, I do think it is arrogant and downright RUDE if a user removes the Copyright.
If a user is argumentative with that, then how about they go out and develop their own Content management Webdesign Program or their own Theme instead of MOOCHING off of others and removing that persons credits.

So, to everyone out there in the PHP-Nuke communtiy that think they should be able to remove the Copyright...be prepared for no more freebies.

It's gonna happen folks. FB is either going to start charging for Nuke and or stop development totally on Nuke. So be prepared. We can thank all the users who blatantly abuse the Honor system.

mikem

chatserv · 04-19-2003, 03:24 PM

Amen

atticus · 04-19-2003, 03:29 PM

Kk...I'm gonna try and read all that by tonight...I can't read...

ads · 04-19-2003, 05:38 PM

well the only change I've made to the nukemods copyright line is to make the links open in a new window. 8O

mikem · 04-19-2003, 10:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ads

well the only change I've made to the nukemods copyright line is to make the links open in a new window. 8O

That's cool. We probably should have made the link that way...target="_blank" :roll:

mikem

watson · **coe pls -** 05-19-2003, 10:08 AM

could somone post the code for footer 1. i think thats why on my site i get parse erros. i was trouble shooting the problem when i noticed that i didnt' have a footer #1, i think i may have accidentlay deleted this, and this is the topic in which you address the problem.

i didnt' now intentionally dielete it, it could have even been my friend that was using my computer trying to fix some problems on my nukesite.

the erros should still show up, along with invalid sessions on windows XP computer viewing my site. Click Here

mikem · 05-19-2003, 10:16 AM

watson,

You added the Ms_Analysis module. to do so, You had to edit your footer.php file and add this bit of code

Code:

     function footmsg() {
        global $foot1, $foot2, $foot3, $copyright, $totaltime, $starttime;
        $mtime = microtime();
        $mtime = explode(" ",$mtime);
        $mtime = $mtime[1] + $mtime[0];
        $endtime = $mtime;
        $totaltime = ($endtime - $starttime);
        $totaltime = ""._PAGEGENERATION." ".substr($totaltime,0,5)." "._SECONDS."";
        echo "<font class=\"footmsg\">\n";
        if ($foot1 != "") {
           echo "$foot1
\n";
        }
        if ($foot2 != "") {
	   echo "$foot2
\n";
        }
        if ($foot3 != "") {
           echo "$foot3
\n";
        }
        // DO NOT REMOVE THE FOLLOWING COPYRIGHT LINE. YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO REMOVE NOR EDIT THIS.
        echo "$copyright
$totaltime
\n</font>\n";
       
        // FOR MS-ANALYSIS ADD FOLLOWING LINE 
        require( "modules/MS_Analysis/mstrack.php" );       
     }

did you do that. If so, then you may have mis-pasted the code or corrupted the footer.php by editing it in a non-textbased program.
A parse error is usually an indication that you are missing a closing } in the script.

mikem