-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Morbus Iff wrote: | Thanks for the upload! Unfortunately, I think legally the only way I'd | be able to work on his code (as opposed to rewriting) would be if he | released a new zip with the GPL statement in it, or otherwise, publicly | (on a Drupal node, in the CVS) proclaimed its new licensing. I'm not | sure how willing he is to do that, now that he's not using Drupal. I am going to contact Mabster, since I have a relationship with him already, and ask for his permission. | I'll take a look at it. I've never looked into it before, because of the | "Moderation" name - I have no desire to moderate nodes based on rating. | I just want a boring old rating system that keeps track of numbers, but | doesn't necessarily /act/ on them. I understand what you are saying, my hope is that it would be trivial to add an option to simply disable the action part of the module and simply track votes. Perhaps even add an option for tracking an average instead of a numeric total. | Thanks! Be sure to +1 when I make an Issue outta it ;) You got my vote! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCQvcjO+lwfsap+f0RAlP7AJ4/vyeIUIbttH6DYv4vtytmDOoqfACbBWt+ ss22cuw6eysdUpVNgdFh1Qc= =h09D -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Morbus Iff wrote: |> | Thanks for the upload! Unfortunately, I think legally the only way I'd |> | be able to work on his code (as opposed to rewriting) would be if he |> | released a new zip with the GPL statement in it, or otherwise, publicly |> | (on a Drupal node, in the CVS) proclaimed its new licensing. I'm not |> | sure how willing he is to do that, now that he's not using Drupal. So, I contacted Matt and he has agreed to release his code under the GPL as long as he gets credited for parts of the original code in the source header, which AFAIK is perfectly acceptable and compatible with the GPL. I have posted a snippet of our email conversation and the latest module ~ itself with the LICENSE.txt included over at my personal website: http://grohk.net/propstar I still would like to explore the possibility of merging this code into Node Moderation as an optional running mode, since I like the star based ratings ui for some of my websites. Also, I remember having issues with the module when trying to display multiple node types on the front page. Anyway, we got permission to use the code, so discussion can commence. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCRF9yO+lwfsap+f0RAvgGAJ956CarAbrflWCMW0cxZbaOwOVeNACfTUCj zqQuoP9aZo97kQ7YqW0Zez0= =y/Vv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

So, I contacted Matt and he has agreed to release his code under the GPL as long as he gets credited for parts of the original code in the source header, which AFAIK is perfectly acceptable and compatible with the GPL.

Excellent!

I still would like to explore the possibility of merging this code into Node Moderation as an optional running mode, since I like the star based ratings ui for some of my websites. Also, I remember having issues with the module when trying to display multiple node types on the front page.

I've been chatting about it with #drupal. There are two notes: * JonBob thinks it'll be easy as pie to hook the following UI: http://factorycity.net/demos/drupal/rating/ up to remote calls in javascript (such that the user can vote, but without requiring a page reload or an IFRAME). * actions.module, which I've not looked at but sounds interesting, has been proposed to implement your Node Moderation. With it, you'd be able to define two (new) actions to happen when a node reaches X amount of (average) stars. -- Morbus Iff ( you are nothing without your robot car, NOTHING! ) Culture: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://www.gamegrene.com/ Spidering Hacks: http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596005776/disobeycom icq: 2927491 / aim: akaMorbus / yahoo: morbus_iff / jabber.org: morbus

I have a copy of the propstar module, and another with a few fixes from me. I could import that to CVS. Create project, etc. The module files do not have any licence or author information, not even a readme.txt. Only code. That's public domain, anyone can use for any purpose, no?

No, you can't use it. Since he didn't put it into the Drupal CVS in the first place, it doesn't inherit Drupal's GPL. And since there is no LICENSE specifying otherwise, it defaults to a copyrighted work by the original creator, which means we can't use it whatsoever as the basis for new updates or code. He'd have to publicly relicense it under the GPL before we'd be able to update/CVS, etc. -- Morbus Iff ( you are nothing without your robot car, NOTHING! ) Culture: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://www.gamegrene.com/ Spidering Hacks: http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596005776/disobeycom icq: 2927491 / aim: akaMorbus / yahoo: morbus_iff / jabber.org: morbus

Specially, the site can be found here: http://www.principlesproject.com/