Re: Website copyright

I have no problem with your website looking the way it does. Actually, it looks pretty nice. What is the font you are using for the main text in your "manual"? - Colin "Daniel Lorch" <daniel@php.net> wrote in message news:19314842792.20020127173341@lorch.cc... > Hi, > > I wanted to share some PHP code snippets and therefore put them on my > homepage. First, I got your logo from the download-site where it said, > I could use it to promote PHP without any licencing. > > After having written a small description in "the PHP-manual-style" I > thought it would be nice to have this pages look like php.net - and > that's what I did. Before putting these pages online, I thought I > could have a closer look to your licence. I remember PHP itself having > a quite generous licence which allows using it for practically everything > as long as you mentioned that PHP technology would be used in it. > > To my disappointment the licence of the website was a bit different. > Although I created all HTML/CSS/images myself, the layout clearly > ressembles your page (intentionally, of course), but you could > interpret it as "rip off" although it was actually meant to be a > "homage" to you. > > Here's a screenshot of my page: > > http://daniel.lorch.cc/images/php.png [232 kb] > > The PHP-part is clearly seperated ("embedded") to my layout and I am > quite sure everyone who knows PHP also knows your site, thus knows > that it's from you. I was also just writing the "Acknowledgement" part > to avoid any confusion. > > My idea is to give every sub-page a different, individual look while > still preserving the "corporate identity". > > That's why I'd like to ask you, whether it would be possible, under > spacial circumstances and adding a clearly visible copyright notice, > to keep it this way. > > Oh, by the way: I didn't find any mailinglist for the "website team" > on php.net - is there any? I don't know whether I have the time to > redesign your whole page, but I could certainly help here and there :) > I already have a CVS account as you see. I'm helping a bit in the > PHP-Dev mailinglist to sort out the bogus reports :) > > Kind Regards, > Daniel Lorch > http://daniel.lorch.cc/ > -- > @echo "Hello, World"; > >