In my trolls around the internet I've seen several conflicting footers with regards to credits to Manji. I guess this is my fault since to be honest I don't have a readme file that states any of this. I'm going to hopefully finish this off in the next couple of days along with the user manual for all you newbies who would like to understand the structure and how you can go about actually skinning Manji.
I will say that the majority of the sites I've been to that have used Manji have left the credits in tack and in some cases gone a bit further and given me copyright of their blog as well ^_^. Needless to say YourSite is NOT copyright of Khaled Abou Alfa. Your site is your copyright. I've got to say that I'm really proud of you guys for being so honest and cool about keeping the Manji credit in tact.
Which leads me to my next point. Could all those using the preview version of Manji (around 1000 downloads) make the link back to manji the following:
Many people are getting this page when they link to this site, kind of defeats the object doesn't it? http://www.brokenkode.com/index.php?p=470
In the meantime I'll say this about the footer credits. I guess all I ask is that you keep one line in there:
Manji designed by Khaled Abou Alfa & Root.
That's all I ask (of course and keeping the proper creditation in the css and the GPL license). Which funnly enough brings me to my final point about this I promise. There has been some talk about people releasing their Manji flavours to the world at large. In fact Scott has already released his Flavour for Wordpress Version 1.2. Personally I'm all for this effort. It's what GPL is all about. Community and people adding to something someone started or whatever. It's more fun that way.
So what happens then? Well then the footer does change and personnally I'd really like it to be something along the lines of the following:
YourName Flavoured Manji: Designed by Your Name. Based wholely upon the Manji template(or code, whatever suits you more) developed by khaled abou alfa & root.
In the CSS your name gets added to the list of people before you. So my name and Root's and then yours and then the next person after you. To be honest none of this will ever get policed. It's just a courtesy thing really nothing more nothing less.
I believe I am to blame for this as well. I want a clean footer so I've linked to you in my Colophon instead, and your CSS credit remains intact. I have never considered it as a way to steal your thunder, in fact I have mentioned Manji several times in the blog, but perhaps I should have asked you first? In any rate, I really don't want to muddy my footer, so let me know if my colophon is acceptable., and I will update the link as well.
oh, that colophon link is: http://www.northernpassages.com/blog/index.php?page_id=3
I know dude, I was actually thinking about this as I typed this. I suppose I want to get some sort of rule out there.
The thing is I guess that there might be other people out there that also want to go for a minimalistic sort of approach, and if I say to keep a link back here, well it will almost probably get lost.... if you see what I mean.
In your case I'm prepared to make the exception really since I know you're the first Manji skinner, before it even got preview released ^_-
I wasn't trying to point fingers at anyone or complain or whatever, it was just I found it pretty amusing how some people misunderstood copyright rules and I understood they were trying to give credit where credit was due, and like I said sometimes they went a bit too much ^_^, so I thought I'd make it nice and easy for them.
I must have changed the footer credits around 6 times since last night, I think they are all fine now. None the less I always gave credit where credit was due. I fixed that link Khaled i think it was still reaching the proper page, it wasnt the same link as posted in this site
http://www.brokenkode.com/index.php?page_id=470
Just for the record, I think I was the second person to *flavor* Manji I remmeber seeing Tinals great site and had to see what this was all about.
Cool, I added a link button with the link to Manji and mouseover text - maybe te best of both worlds? It's a wicked theme and I want you to get your props, thanks for being understanding of the overall balance of the design