Ich für meinen Teil habe meinen Schlüsse daraus gezogen, werde wahrscheinlich Fusion den Rücken zukehren und mein Glück in einem anderen CMS suchen.

welche Voraussetzungen habt ihr erfüllt um jegliche Hinweise auf PHP-Fusion entfernen zu dürfen. Combrix basiert ja letztlich noch auf der v6 von Fusion.

Wir haben eine nette Mail von den Engländern erhalten, die ich jetzt nicht veröffentlichen möchte, aber ziemlich über die deutsche Community herzieht.
(sinngemäß: die Deutschen beschweren sich nur, tragen aber wenig / nichts zur Community bei)

I have looked into the Rabbit CMS package and well, it's quite a mess you have in there, speaking about licenses.

I have spoken with Nick Jones and he does not give you permission to change the license. To do so would mean that he practically gave away all of the copyright of his work and he will not do that.

This means that all of Rabbit CMS must be licensed under AGPL. And that includes our original footer as well, the license is very specific on this.

And, speaking about licenses a bit further...

Rabbit CMS is based on PHP-Fusion, I don't even consider it a fork but more of a modified version. And that means that all files in the project, even the ones you have written from scratch, must retain Nicks copyright, since we're the main product and you have done the modifications, meaning extensions as well and even when you write an Infusion, which is a derivative, you must use our copyright. We have cleared this very much by corresponding with FSF.

I'll try to provide an example here:

<?php
/*-------------------------------------------------------+
| Rabbit-CMS Content Management System
| [url]http://www.rabbit...[/url]
+--------------------------------------------------------+
| based on PHP-Fusion CMS v7.01
| Copyright (C) 2002 - 2010 Nick Jones
| [url]http://www.php-fu...[/url]
+--------------------------------------------------------+
| Filename: maincore.php
+--------------------------------------------------------+
| This program is released as free software under the
| Affero GPL license. You can redistribute it and/or
| modify it under the terms of this license which you
| can read by viewing the included agpl.txt or online
| at [url]www.gnu.org/licen...[/url] Removal of this
| copyright header is strictly prohibited without
| written permission from the original author(s).
+--------------------------------------------------------*/

This is from maincore.php as it looks today and that is not correct.

I do suggest the following to be put inside every file that is interacting with our system;

<?php
/
*--------------------------------------------------------+
| PHP-Fusion CMS v7.01
| Copyright (C) 2002 - 2010 Nick Jones
| [url]http://www.php-fu...[/url]
---------------------------------------------------------+
| Modified version of PHP-Fusion 7.01
| Rabbit-CMS Content Management System
| [url]http://www.rabbit...[/url]
+--------------------------------------------------------+
+--------------------------------------------------------+
| Filename: maincore.php
+--------------------------------------------------------+
| This program is released as free software under the
| Affero GPL license. You can redistribute it and/or
| modify it under the terms of this license which you
| can read by viewing the included agpl.txt or online
| at [url]www.gnu.org/licen...[/url] Removal of this
| copyright header is strictly prohibited without
| written permission from the original author(s).
+--------------------------------------------------------*/

You have not recoded that much of anything that this constitutes the requirements of a proper fork, this we consider to be a modified version of PHP-Fusion, our name and copyright is what rules the whole arrangement around ours and your endproduct, so in all fairness, our name and Nicks copyright shall remain on top and inside every file of this project of yours. Even the ones you wrote from scratch, since that is what AGPL states.

Under no circumstances can this or any derivation/modification/fork of PHP-Fusion be mentioned, alluded to, linked to or advertised in any way on any official PHP-Fusion site. Any NSS that does so may result in having their official status revoked.

And, as the AGPL license is very clear about this, our footer remains intact. If you wanna have booth copyright footers, fine, but you are not allowed by the AGPL to remove our copyright and we do not you give permission to remove it either.

As for some of the other files I have looked at, you need to get your whole act together. In the file buildlist.php in the folder includes, it looks like this:

<?php
/*---------------------------------------------------+
| buildlist.php - iLister enginge.
+----------------------------------------------------+
| Copyright (C) 2005 Johs Lind
| [url]http://www.geltze...[/url]
| Inspired by: PHP-Fusion 6 coding
+----------------------------------------------------+
| Released under the terms & conditions of v2 of the
| GNU General Public License. For details refer to
| the included gpl.txt file or visit [url]http://gnu.org[/url]
+----------------------------------------------------*/

Same deal here, our copyright must remain visible inside the file header etc... And I have not looked very thorough at all, just picked a few files at random and all I can say is that this is not a finished and ready product you have here. I can understand your wish to make your own stuff, but you must make a whole lot of more changes in order to call this anything else than a modified version of PHP-Fusion, this does not qualify as a fork, you have kept the same file structure, the Infusion system just to name a few things and we do not recognize this as a fork of our system.

Now, that leaves us with material for further discussions. I do believe in discussions and sadly I have missed you and your crew to discuss with, Germany is after all not a small nation for us, so it's sad we've had such a bad communication.

| Code based on PHP-Fusion
| [url]http://www.php-fusion.co.uk/