Hi Chaps,
There have recently been some posts on another forum raising issue with the fact that this forum does not have a PHPBB copy write / link back notice on the footer.
As the threads all got a little heated, the topic was 'locked'.
I thought best to draw an official line.
--
To date, this forum has never shown a standard Powered By PHPBB footer link, and a PHPBB copywrite notice. The reasons for this have been.
1. The default text is rather long and collided with the chat system at the bottom of the site.
2. I personally do not believe in out write advertising your code base to any script kid hacker on the net. Obfuscation is a mildly effective means of preventing hacks.
3. Placing a copy write notice on the footer of the site that says 'Copy write PHPBB' would imply that all site content is copy writed by phpbb. Clearly not the case.
4. The FAQ pages on the forum have always clearly outlined who build/developed the forum software.
If one follows the PHBB lines on the text and what they have to say on the matter - there simple line on the matter is. "No problem to remove the link, but we will not be able to provide support for the forum"
Their logic on this is simple. No GPL licensing is broken removing the link. The output of this text is provided by the theme you use, and any public person can alter the theme / create a new one. So how do you stop people removing a link that by design allows you to remove it? They simply ask as a good will that you leave it in, and in return give you free support.
Following on from all this debate I have come up with an intermediate solution.
I have found a space on the bottom right that can include a 'Powered By' notice. This is small enough that it does not mess with the chat system. I cannot however include the copy write notice, as they do not hold copy write on the page content.
This is all really a mute point. Keeping the notice is not mandatory, and done a a simple good will gesture. My reasons for adding it back in are simply to silence a group of people who seem unable to appreciate why the developers of the 9x firmwares kicked up a fuss when their gpl notice was removed from a product, and then sold with the implication that the end company had made the firmware. Fortunately this issue is all in the process of being cleared up.
Forum Copywrite Notice
General Information & Rules
- Rob Thomson
- Site Admin
- Posts: 4543
- Joined: Tue Dec 27, 2011 11:34 am
- Country: United Kingdom
- Location: Albury, Guildford
- Contact:
Forum Copywrite Notice
Post by Rob Thomson »
Slope Soaring, FPV, and pretty much anything 'high tech'
...........if you think it should be in the wiki.. ask me for wiki access, then go add it!
...........if you think it should be in the wiki.. ask me for wiki access, then go add it!
Return to “General Information & Rules”
Jump to
- OPENRC News & Information
- ↳ General Information & Rules
- ↳ Feedback
- General help and information
- ↳ Software
- ↳ Hardware
- ↳ General help (FrSky Taranis radio)
- Open Radio Control Transmitter Firmwares
- ↳ General model setup questions
- ↳ er9x / gruvin9x / th9 based firmwares
- ↳ Template Library
- ↳ Splash Screen Library
- ↳ Helicoptor Programming
- ↳ radioclone
- ↳ stock firmware (fly sky th9x)
- ↳ Template Library
- ↳ Sound Pack Library
- ↳ Edge TX
- ↳ openTx
- ↳ openTx for FrSky radios
- ↳ openTx model setup
- ↳ er9x
- ↳ er9x model setup
- ↳ ersky9xr
- ↳ erskyTx (was ersky9x)
- ↳ ersky9x model setup
- ↳ gruvin9x
- ↳ gruvin9x model setup
- ↳ th9x
- ↳ th9x model setup
- ↳ gv9x
- ↳ radioclone
- ↳ radioclone model setup
- ↳ tgy9xr
- ↳ tgy9xr model setup
- ↳ AR-T6
- ↳ other
- Desktop Software to Program Your Transmitter
- ↳ eePe
- ↳ companion9x
- ↳ eepSKYe
- Open Radio Control RF Systems & Hardware
- ↳ OpenLRS
- ↳ OpenLRSng
- ↳ OpenLRSng hardware
- Closed Source Radio Control RF Systems & Hardware
- ↳ Royal Way - Rlink UHF Long Range System
- Transmitter Hardware
- ↳ FlySky TH9X / Turnigy 9X / Eurgle 9X radio
- ↳ SMARTIEPARTS PROGRAMMER
- ↳ HARDWARE MODS & HACKS
- ↳ FRSky Telemetry Mods
- ↳ ArduPilot Mods
- ↳ Electronic Mods
- ↳ Hardware Mods
- ↳ Soldering, Hardware, Skills
- ↳ DSM2/DSMX Mods
- ↳ UPGRADE BOARDS
- ↳ sky9x upgrade board
- ↳ gruvin9x upgrade board
- ↳ 9Xtreme upgrade board
- ↳ RF MODULES
- ↳ The FRSKY Forum
- ↳ PROGRAMMERS
- ↳ FrSky Taranis radio
- ↳ FRSky Horus radio
- ↳ Turnigy 9XR PRO radio
- ↳ Orange DSM Telemetry module
- ↳ Turnigy 9XR radio
- ↳ PROGRAMMERS
- ↳ Other Radios
- ↳ Retro Radios
- Other OPEN Projects
- ↳ General RC Electronic Projects and Discussion
- ↳ OpenXVario - an open source vario supported by the open source firmwares!!
- ↳ Other Electronic Projects
- ↳ OpenFlightStab
- ↳ OpenLRSng
- ↳ 3D Printing
- Other Forums
- ↳ The Pickled Gnu (The Pub)
- ↳ FPV Projects
- ↳ Reviews
- ↳ Where to buy / Spares / Modules? Selling up?
- Links
- ↳ er9x on Google Code
- ↳ ersky9x on Github
- ↳ Gruvin9x on Google Code
- ↳ th9x on Google Code
- ↳ openTx on Google Code
- ↳ gv9x on Google Code
- ↳ radioclone on Sourceforge
- ↳ eePe on Google Code
- ↳ companion9x on Google Code
- ↳ 9X Guides
- ↳ openxvario