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PHP-Nuke: Web Portal System |
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Welcome to PHP-Nuke! |
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First of all, thanks a lot to download this software, I hope that you |
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can enjoy it. |
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PHP-Nuke is free software, released under GNU GPL Licence version 2.0 |
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(see COPYING file for details) |
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PHP-Nuke is the result of many years administrating a news site called |
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Linux Preview (http://linuxpreview.org). First, around August 1998, I |
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wrote my own code in Perl called NUKE and used it for about 1 year, |
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then my site goes big, so I needed a more powerfull system and decided |
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to use Slash, the same used in Slashdot site. It's good but you realy |
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need to know Perl to modify it, need too many modules, need to load |
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a damn daemon that sucks all your CPU power. My Pentium III just appears |
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to be a 386 each minute the daemon make its work. Well, then I discovered |
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Thatware, a good project to have a news site under PHP. I learned PHP |
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in less than a week and initiate to modify it. There are too many mods |
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to mention, it was practicaly a rewrite. I added some cool stuff, deleted |
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some others and after more than 380 hours of hard work in 3 weeks! PHP-Nuke |
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was born. |
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From August 17, 2000 LinuxPreview.org is owned by LinuxAlianza.com, |
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maybe now I'll have some time to make better PHP-Nuke versions ;) |
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For installation instructions, go and read INSTALL file, also remember |
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to read CREDITS file to know from where comes the things. The TODO file |
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is the list of features that I'll add in future versions, read it also. |
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Please, enjoy PHP-Nuke and remember that this is free GPL software and |
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comes without any warranty and without technical support, so please don't |
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email me to ask how to make this or that, I'll ignore that type of emails. |
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PHP-Nuke isn't perfect, but your suggestions and feedback can help all |
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us to have a very well done portal system! |
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IMPORTANT NOTE: Is good to see some projects based on this software, but |
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there are some that just copied all the code "without modifications" and them |
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removed all copyrights everywhere. If you want to start your project based |
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on PHP-Nuke READ the GPL license. If I see more plagiarists I will have two |
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options, one is to stop releasing PHP-Nuke, and the other one is to rewrite |
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it and release under propietary and restrictive license... Think about it, |
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don't make the GPL sucks like this, ok? The guidelines of the GPL are clear, |
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and for those who released their own "un-modified" version of PHP-Nuke (you |
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know who you are) just four words: STOP VIOLATING THE GPL! and don't steal |
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my LOGO!!!!! |
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PS: Sorry for my English, I'm not english spoken guy. Also, remember I receive |
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too many Emails, so I can't answer to all you, but for sure I'll read all |
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Emails I receive. |
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-- Francisco Burzi |