Alkivia site has been relaunched. As you can see, a complete new design as been done for the site. This new design will unify the look of all our main sections and sites:
We tried to create a very clean an light theme for our site and make it easy to help you to stay current with all developments and documentation. The new design is based on the Chameleon Theme and it is a child theme of it.
Plugin and theme pages provide now the most up to date information about any development. You will find information about the current version, the WordPress versions it works on, and the last update date. In all plugin and theme pages you will find, at the bottom, useful links to all related information. We wanted to provide an overview page which points to all information you can need.
Documentation in our wiki is being written just now, so some pages can be missing or inaccurate. Sure you will understand this as will be more complete and finished in next days. Also, more improvements will come as there are some site plans for the immediate future. Keep in touch!
If you’re maintaining a translation, or considering to do it, visit our wiki page with information about translating. Just a new translators mailing list have been started to discuss and talk about how to translate, the problems you find and general instructions about all related with translations.
We suggest from today start using this tools as it will make publishing your translations more easy.
I discovered that it is an small licensing issue with all released themes and plugins. This issue is because I released them under the GPL version 3 license and this license is not compatible with the WordPress license. WordPress is released under the terms of GPL version 2 license and WordPress developers did not include the possibility to develop derivate works in a newer GPL version. That is, WordPress is under the GPL version 2 only license. As themes and plugins are considered a work based on WordPress should all them to be released under a license compatible with GPL version 2, and version 3 of the GPL is indeed no compatible with version 2. You can read this at the Free Software Foundation compatibility page.
So, starting today, any new release of any plugin or theme will only be released under the terms of GPL version 2 license while current released version will remain GPL version 3 licensed. This means that current themes and plugins versions can be used on other projects by the terms or GPLv3 but this applies only to the plugin or theme code, and you must know that distributing current themes and plugins with WordPress would violate both licenses (WordPress and my Themes and Plugins license).
To prevent licenses violation and to make all my themes and plugins fully compatible with WordPress license, I grant you this additional necessary rights to the current releases of my themes and plugins:
- You are granted to switch the license of the WordPress themes and plugins copyrighted by Jordi Canals (me), to GNU General Public License version 2.
- Here and now, you’re allowed to change the license file included on my current themes and plugins by the GNU General Public License version 2 license file as published by the Free Software Foundation and included within the original WordPress package.
- You are allowed to replace any reference to GPL version 3 license within the code with a reference to GPL version 2. If you do that, you have the obligation to remove the sentence “or (at your opinion) any later version”. To do this, use the following text:
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
This granted rights apply only to this themes and plugins releases:
- Alkivia Open Community version 0.9.3
- Capability Manager version 1.2.5
- Inline Pagelist version 1.5.8
- SidePosts widget version 2.5.1
- Alkivia Chameleon version 2.1
Any other plugin version will fully maintain the license terms included on the package.
Just as I received some questions about it, I want to clarify the license allows you to remove the public author attribution on the Chameleon theme and you have a check box on the theme settings page to do it on the easiest way (this is the page footer). To do that, you don’t need any special permission and you don’t need any other license. You are not allowed to remove the copyright notices inside the code as it is a copyrighted work (and those are only visible by browsing the source code).
I’ve just ended my holidays. So, I will start answering my email and support questions just tonight. Please allow some time to get all questions answered as I have a lot of mails and questions. From now, I will attend the support questions as time permits. At this time, I’m a bit busy with some other projects and you know, first I have to attend my job and paid projects… (Everyone needs to work to live…).
I started a testing process on the site. As a new feature on the site, users can now upload 6 pictures and get listed in the site. Pictures have to be between 0.2 and 2 mega-pixels and cannot exceed 2 Mb. This way, you can test some features from a user point of view on a live site. Users get listed as soon as them have an approved picture.
This is a testing feature, and after some time I will decide if I leave it opened or not on the site.
I opened the site registration to all users. This way will be more easy for you to comment on posts. If you want to contribute some relevant content to the site, you can ask for it and I will raise your level for it. All contributions are moderated.
Plugin or theme translators, can register and contact me to be promoted as translator. With this, you will have access to the Community features and your profile will be listed on the site.
