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

[Laura Scott]

Well said.

On Jan 12, 2007, at 6:34 PM, Chris Kennedy wrote:

> 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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