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Please don't remove the "Powered by Drake CMS" link
13 January 2008 17:22
Anonymous
Hi all,
there has been a short discussion about this
subject in the past, I will now try to pronounce a "last
word" upon it (you can anyway reply to this topic as it is
not locked).
The GPL license under which Drake CMS is
licensed DOES NOT require or enforce that you
should mantain the "Powered by Drake CMS" link in the
Drake CMS templates (either officially released or
custom-made).
BUT, if you remove it,
it will remain almost no track that the CMS is Drake CMS, thus
you will actually have removed any copyright information from the
software, and that's pretty unfair and illegal.
I am
asking, in the name of The Drake Team (yes there are dozens of
people working to provide you with the free Drake CMS software
and services), to endorse a fair usage and not
remove the "Powered by Drake CMS" link from
all the templates used with Drake CMS.
You might ask,
why such fair requirement?
It's for the
project. If the link stays where it should, more people will know
about the project and will possibly join and help.
On
the long run their presence will make the software become better
and everybody will enjoy the advantages. Otherwise each user
experience becomes a dead-end and no feedback comes to the
project.
Please note that we are not coding Drake CMS
for money, neither to become rich and famous, but without your
help this type of initiatives can rarely have success (although
we are trying to provide you with the best CMS ).
Also, we are offering free support on the forums and on the
Support tracker at SF.net. You can keep using the software even
if you do not satisfy this fair requirement but please
don't expect or worse pretend our freely offered support
if you are not helping the project!
).