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iolai
XOOPS legal question

  • 2005/6/26 11:32

  • iolai

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While looking for a hebrew CMS, I've stumbled upon hebrew XOOPS translation. However, it is not free - a web company sells it to its customers.

Is this legal?
- Eli Baskin.
Dune MUD
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Mithrandir
Re: XOOPS legal question

As long as they don't say what you can and cannot do with it once you have it - like for instance tell you that you may not distribute it for free - it is allowed.

So yes, they can charge for it - but if you find someone who has bought it and get a copy from him/her, the company cannot claim that it is piracy. It would be perfectly legal.
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iolai
Re: XOOPS legal question

  • 2005/6/26 11:44

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It annoyed that I had to open the code to see it is XOOPS - nothing is mentioned on the site, and the footer even says that all rights reserved to the company -http://demo.dotcom.co.il/
- Eli Baskin.
Dune MUD
AtomsWorld.com
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davidl2
Re: XOOPS legal question

  • 2005/6/26 11:48

  • davidl2

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<off topic>Your Dune site is impressive!</off topic>
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Mithrandir
Re: XOOPS legal question

Hmmm - well. They are in their rights to do that, as long as the original credits are in place.

Also, the link in the bottom of the page could give a clue
Quote:

http://demo.dotcom.co.il/<{$xoops_url}?PHPSESSID=d7w98sd98wed98w>
"When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point-of-view is seldom necessary."

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iolai
Re: XOOPS legal question

  • 2005/6/26 13:49

  • iolai

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Well, if we are on it already, is there any planning to make XOOPS support RTL languages in the core?
- Eli Baskin.
Dune MUD
AtomsWorld.com
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Mithrandir
Re: XOOPS legal question

If someone will work with us to help us find out exactly what is necessary to change, then yes. Certainly.

However, I am a left-to-right man and will need someone to lean on for this kind of thing.
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Herko
Re: XOOPS legal question

  • 2005/6/26 14:45

  • Herko

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what does it take to support right to left in the core? If it this:
<table  cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" dir=rtl lang=he>
                  <tr valign="top"> 
<td align="right"> <div class="blockTitle" dir=rtl lang=he align="right"></div>
<div class="blockContent" dir=rtl lang=he align="right"><div align="right" dir="rtl" lang="he">
<img src="http://demo.dotcom.co.il//images/uploads/welcome.gif" width="132" height="18" alt="" border="0" /><br />


then I suspect no (notice the double dir and lang definitions)

With a better idea of what it takes, we can consider it

Herko
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iolai
Re: XOOPS legal question

  • 2005/6/26 15:39

  • iolai

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Could you contact me via ICQ (3675161) or MSN messenger (elibaskin@gmail.com), so we can talk about this?
- Eli Baskin.
Dune MUD
AtomsWorld.com

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