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Re: Xoops and GPL v3

  • 2007/7/21 13:25

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The second part of your statement is not exactly right from my understanding of the license: Someone can take the source code, change it, and release his changes under GPLv3 only, because that is exactly what the boilerplate text allows you: "at your option, use a newer version of GPL"

I was worried that if that applies to my code that someone releases my code under GPL v3 only like it can be done with XOOPS Code.

If that license only applies to XOOPS Code that i modify i am fine with it - the XOOPS Guys have chosen to allow this for their code and all modifications made to it, i just don't want to allow this for my code.
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Xoops and GPL v3

  • 2007/7/21 12:05

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Hello,

i'd like to use some parts of XOOPS in a project of mine. This is an open source project under GPL. XOOPS is GPL as well, however i found this in the header of the XOOPS souce files:

"This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version."

Now the bold part gives me a few headaches. My project is strictly GPL v2 only whereas XOOPS can be either GPL v2 or v3. If I use XOOPS Source in my application, will that mean that my whole application needs to offer the user the option to use GPL v3 as well? Or would that only apply to the parts i've taken from XOOPS Source Code?
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Checking if InnoDB is supported?

  • 2007/1/7 14:38

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Hello,

for a module i'm developing, i'd like to use InnoDB Tables (Transaction Support is the main reason).
Writing the Module is not the issue, but the SQL Scripts obviously contain the "ENGINE = InnoDB" statement that will fail if you run an older MySQL without InnoDB Support.

What would be a good way to check whether the DB Server supports InnoDB and gracefully exit if not? (This check should happen upon installation of the module)
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Moving Stuff to the <head> Part?

  • 2006/12/5 20:35

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Hello,

is there any way to add stuff to the <head> within a module?
i.e. if i want to use a stylesheet or a <script> that is only used within that module?
I can just use echo '<link rel........' to put it in the <body> and that even works, but it does not feel right and does not look like proper HTML to me.

So, is there a way to add something within the <head> Tags?
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News Module with proper Access Rights?

  • 2006/6/10 19:21

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Hi,

i am looking for a News module with proper access rights. I have several user groups, and i want to restrict access to certain news articles to certain groups.

I tried the News 1.44, News2, Altern8news and AMS, but they do not handle rights properly. I can setup multiple categories and then take away the "View" right from a group.
In AMS, this first looks good: Opening the /articles/ URL will only show news i am allowed to see. But then, when I go to Archive, i see all news, including the prohibites categories. I can not use the Read More-Link, but I can see the title and the normal text. If I use the Spotlight Block to have the latest news included in the homepage, i see all news as well.

So, this is no good. I checked the other Modules in the News-Part of the Modules repository as well, and they all have the same problem.

Does someone know a good news module that allows me to properly prevent people to see certain news articles?

While preventing News-Categories for certain user groups would be enough (if it just properly prevents access everywhere, incl. all search/archive/latest news etc.), the greatest thing to have would be to set Viewing rights per Article - but that is an optional requirement.
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