[documentation] Very good tutorial on the concept of 'webdesign for CMS' and 'templates'.

[Chris Kennedy]

If the wordpress.com Garland fiasco taught us nothing else, it should
have at least reminded us of the merits of asking for permission even
when not legally mandated. Drupal must do its part to be a good neighbor
and foster a cooperative open source community.

Merely using it for inspiration in improving Drupal docs that is one
thing, but if we're talking about minor changes to translate it to
Drupal we should ask for permission and thank the authors for their work.

Peter Wolanin wrote:
> Regardless of the license, there is still the basic principle of fair
> use under U.S. copyright law[1].
> 
> Since this is for educational, non-profit purposes, and since the
> original material is being distributed for free, I can't see how there
> would be any problem[3].  Of course, one could also be nice and ask
> the author for permission to use these few pages as the basis for some
> handbook pages, but I don't really think they have the right to
> refuse.
> 
> -Peter
> 
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
> [2] http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html
> [3] I am not an attorney
> 
> From: Bèr Kessels <ber at webschuur.com>
> To: documentation at drupal.org
> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:17:06 +0100
> Subject: [documentation] Very good tutorial on the concept of
> 'webdesign for CMS' and 'templates'.
> Hello,
> 
> If you read the first five pages from the PDF in
> http://dev.joomla.org/component/option,com_jd-wp/Itemid,33/p,250/
> you will notice that this can be used almost 1:1 for Drupal.
> The joomla! writers did a fantastic job explaining the concept of themes to
> n00bs. Explaining the idea to those who come from a design-shop, or whom know
> frontpage, or Dreamweaver to design/create websites.
> 
> It is CC, but no-derivs, maybe some concepts can still be used?
> 
> Bèr
> 
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