RE: Website copyright

That's verdana :) James > -----Original Message----- > From: Colin Viebrock [mailto:colin@easydns.com] > Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 6:22 PM > To: php-mirrors@lists.php.net > Subject: 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"; > > > > > >