NgineS
The Ultimate Best Community run PHP Social Network Platform.
This repository is empty but it enables everyone who to contribute for a modularized NgineS Community Edition.
- You can post issues
- we can have projects for modules, themes
- a Wiki is available where people can contribute
- no copyright infringement is intended with this repository which holds ONLY code licensed under an Open Source License which are compatible with AGPL or which have to follow the License requirements of an integrated part of this script i.e. php-gettext (licensed under GNU GPL v2+ a.o.)
- This repository will also function as a bugtracker for all our customers who are still using Sngine until the first stable release of NgineS will be available.
Extra code we post here under T3Social for NgineS will be available under a GPL/AGPL or LGPL v.3 license
NgineS - Our History and Background
How do we get the idea to build a community run Social Network Platform? On Envato Market Place CodeCanyon an App called "Sngine" is available by Zamblek (verified author name by Envato: Yehia Abed, Egypt) which could be used as an idea. The "Sngine" Version before March 5th, 2021 has integrated php-gettext by Danilo Segan, and all Code has therefore to follow the GNU GPL v2+ requirements - The script gets advertised on Envato Market place as the "The Ultimate PHP Social Network Platform" but unfortunately it is still missing a proper API, a modularized structure so that Modules and Themes could be integrated easily and it is using the Smart Templating Engine which is licensed under LGPLv3 and therefore is violating actually the GNU GPL v.2 and needs to get replaced too. Many features this script is having are connected to pretty expensive external services and thow we like to change that too. Our community edition can be really and truly following the Open Source spirit. Inspire to share!
NgineS - The Name
The 5 Star and Ultimate Best Community run PHP Social Network Platform with Multiple Engines
The name of the community edition will be NgineS as we will use not only one S(ingleE)ngine which drives all but instead modularize the system so we can speak of many Engines empowering the Ultimate Best Community run PHP Social Network Platform. Inspire to share and contribute with ideas, feedbacks and code. Contact us!
Code Inspection of existing code, Licenses, Research and Conclusions
We did inspect the code base and the used Licenses in the core code by Yehia Abed/Zamblek Team in their Envato CodeCanyon App Sngine which had php-gettext integrated in all its Envato distribution before March 5, 2021, and a derivate of php-gettext until March 10, 2021. We will base it on that (GNU GPL) state.
The Zamblek team is using the community edition of TinyMCE and this one is GNU LGPL v.2 and therfore also the complete code has to be released under GNU LGPL2 or be another GPL license when it is linked.
According to GNU LGPLv.2 it says:
- .... However, linking a "work that uses the Library" with the Library creates an executable that is a derivative of the Library (because it contains portions of the Library), rather than a "work that uses the library". The executable is therefore covered by this License. Section 6 states terms for distribution of such executables. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.en.html
tinymce/tinymce is licensed under the
GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
Primarily used for software libraries,
the GNU LGPL requires that derived works
be licensed under the same license, but
works that only link to it do not fall
under this restriction.
There are two commonly used versions of the GNU LGPL.https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce/blob/develop/LICENSE.TXT check the conditions which clearly state - SAME license, commercial and private use and distribution possible - Disclose the source code! -
and there are more codes which force the license to GNU GPLv.2 - i.e. GNU gettext - https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Licenses.html#Licenses
The files of this package are covered by the licenses indicated in
each particular file or directory. Here is a summary:
The libintl and libasprintf libraries are covered by the
GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). A copy of the
license is included in GNU LGPL.
The executable programs of this package and the libgettextpo
library are covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL).
A copy of the license is included in GNU GPL.- i.e. he is using "gettext" which is also GNU GPL v.2 (while php-gettext is MIT - https://github.com/php-gettext/Gettext/blob/master/LICENSE - but he is using a GNU GPL version) until Version 3.0 of the Envato CodeCanyon App released before March 5th and he integrated a clear derivate of the GNU GPL licensed gettext until March 10th, 2021.
gettext - Zamblek Team is using a GNU GPLv.2 Version in their Envato CodeCanyon App
Copyright (c) 2005 Steven Armstrong <sa at c-area dot ch>
Copyright (c) 2009 Danilo Segan <danilo@kvota.net>
Drop in replacement for native gettext.
This file is part of PHP-gettext.
PHP-gettext is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
PHP-gettext 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 PHP-gettext; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USAstreams.php - Zamblek Team is using a GNU GPLv.2 Version in their Envato CodeCanyon App
/*
Copyright (c) 2003, 2005, 2006, 2009 Danilo Segan <danilo@kvota.net>.
This file is part of PHP-gettext.
PHP-gettext is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
PHP-gettext 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 PHP-gettext; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
*/pids dropin is GNU GPL. v.2 - Zamblek Team is using a GNU GPLv.2 Version in their Envato CodeCanyon App
/*
Copyright (c) 2003,2004,2005,2009 Danilo Segan <danilo@kvota.net>.
Copyright (c) 2005,2006 Steven Armstrong <sa@c-area.ch>
This file is part of PHP-gettext.
PHP-gettext is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
PHP-gettext 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 PHP-gettext; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
*/HTML Purifyer is LGPL v2 like Jquery (that is also MIT)
/*
HTML Purifier 4.13.0 - Standards Compliant HTML Filtering
Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Edward Z. Yang
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This library 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
Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
*/PHP Mailer is LGPL too
/**
* PHPMailer Exception class.
* PHP Version 5.5.
*
* @see https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/ The PHPMailer GitHub project
*
* @author Marcus Bointon (Synchro/coolbru) <phpmailer@synchromedia.co.uk>
* @author Jim Jagielski (jimjag) <jimjag@gmail.com>
* @author Andy Prevost (codeworxtech) <codeworxtech@users.sourceforge.net>
* @author Brent R. Matzelle (original founder)
* @copyright 2012 - 2020 Marcus Bointon
* @copyright 2010 - 2012 Jim Jagielski
* @copyright 2004 - 2009 Andy Prevost
* @license http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html GNU Lesser General Public License
* @note This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful - WITHOUT
* ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
* FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
*/and Smarty itself is GNU LGPLv.3
http://www.olafsw.de/compatibility-lgpl2-lgpl3/ this solves the compatibility issues. In other words all code which until now had been released has to be GNU GPL.v.2 or any later version of GPL because of the used GNU GPLv.2 Gettext code integrated to Sngine.
As an addition to twhat had been written already: Here is a short overview of GPL licenses used in the combined work of Sngine. For what I see the only suitable license for the whole work would be GPLv.3 or AGPLv.3 and for our t3.social we are using AGPLv.3. Because it is using the GPL licenses also the whole combined work has to be licensed under GNU GPL. THis again means that the code can be modified, distributed, copied according to the license conditions of GNU GPL. (as I am not a lawyer you might get a clear answer from a lawyer or the FSF directly). https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#AllCompatibility
Other Apps and Licenses used:
Twemoji-awesome
https://github.com/ellekasai/twemoji-awesome Code: MIT License. Graphics: CC-BY.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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