Can I just jumped in here and just say my piece.

I am an IT Manager and in my position, actually encourage my vendors to supply open source solutions to me.

1. I know it has a lower overhead
2. I know it can be supported by ourselves if we need to.

On your questions on GPL - well that has been answered. IMHO you can "sell your service" to deliver an enhanced product, packaged under your own product name, provided you do not remove the credits from the source code. Not everyone like to clutter their website with logo of PHP, Apache, Linux, mySQL, XOOPS, etc. As you can see at my website, I dedicated one page to explain the technologies and the Open Source contributors to the site.

On the subject of ethics - your only problem as I see it is with your competitors, not your clients. Therefore I believe it is beneficial to tell your customers you are using Open Source, therefore enabling you to deliver a lower cost software, which is what I (as a customer) wants. And if your competitor decide to deliver Open Source solution, then it is a matter of your excellent service and expertise that will distinguish you from all the other fly by night Open Sources consultants.

I trust that will give you the assurance to proceed with your plans?

I am in principle prefer to see credits to XOOPS displayed on at least one page.

I just want to add to the list another great Australian Christian website. This site was commissioned prior to Mel Gibson's Passion movie. It provided a great lead up to the film's release in Australia.


http://www.thepassion.org.au/

Top left corner? There is a Fort Chaos logo there.

Also, the site is closed to the public for maintenance?

Quote:

You mean like this?

Go tohttp://www.wowchurch.org to see their site without XOOPS.

If you want to see how the XOOPS site (in development) looks like you go to

http://www.wowchurch.org/index.php

You can do this by making index.html as the default page on the site.

Once XOOPS is ready to go live you change the default page to load on index.php

Channel is best used for non or seldom changing web contents. So most of the pages where they are for info only is great on Channel.

I wanted to use WFSection in the future of articles or reviews.

John's developing his church website at the moment - last time I checked it was coming together nicely.

http://www.wowchurch.org/index.php

No problem matey - just holler to my email address
stan-dot-low-at-xtra-dot-co-dot-nz

I know how you feel about graphics. Don't have any skills in that either - my site theme was done by someone at church with graphic background. I just put it together.

*stick up my hands*

me! me! me! I run a church website

And XOOPS is DA BEST for it.

I've hidden the following modules from non-church members account.

Calendar
Job Listing
Projects
XDirectory

Bless ya

What can I say? He plays BF and am in a BF clan. Nuff said.

That's not to say BF is bad, in fact I know of a number of BF clan sites that use XOOPS. It's just that BF has a wide range of users with different maturity. And some of the lower maturity need a bit more civility before they will get any help from any CMS community be it XOOPS, phpNuke or Mambo.

Yes I agree that legally it can be remove from the footer. However, it would be nice for community or non-commercial websites to at least have a credit page listing all open-source contributions.

Call it being grateful or polite