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That's what I'm planning on doing, I was just checking to see if anyone else had addressed this problem. I don't know much about copyright, but here's something I found by Brad Templeton (Chairman of the Board for the EFF).
"If it's posted to Usenet it's in the public domain."
False. Nothing modern is in the public domain anymore unless the owner explicitly puts it in the public domain(*). Explicitly, as in you have a note from the author/owner saying, "I grant this to the public domain." Those exact words or words very much like them.
Although he's talking about Usenet, the priciple seems generally applicable.
The quote is from 10 Big Myths about copyright explained
So is it best just to leave it alone? I don't want to claim ownership of the content, I just don't want a user crying foul if his post is used for something else (not that I can imagine a situation where it would be). I want it clear that submissions become part of the public domain.
I'm curious about what other punbb users do about copyrights regarding the content of users posts (not Rickard's copyright). I doubt it would ever become an issue, but I'd like to have an established policy just in case. Does anyone bother with that? Specifically, I'm interested in implementing something like Creative Commons - but I'm unsure of how that would apply to user contributions.
Any thoughts or ideas?
Anytime that I check my forum it says that there is a guest online. Even when the visitor stats for my website say that my IP is the only one that has visited the site in over 2 hours. This is a new development although I'm not sure how new. Not that it's a big deal, I don't mind people thinking they're not the only people there - but I'm curious. Any advice?
I think you could restyle the title using the style sheets - but that would apply to all users.
what file are you trying to access when you get that message?
but email.php has the \r\n breaks. i thought that fixed it. (thanks for your help by the way)
that works fine... didn't think of that.
I am still curious about the smtp problem though.
An error was encountered
Error: Unable to send e-mail. Please contact the forum administrator with the following error message reported by the SMTP server: "451 See http://pobox.com/~djb/docs/smtplf.html. ".
I'm not positive, but I think the IPs are only visible to admins and moderators. If you still want to disable it, you could always edit viewtopic.php. But are you sure you need to do that?
On topics with people subscriped I keep getting an Error 451 report. I've upgraded to 1.2. I found some references to the problem in the beta, but thought it was fixed in the final. Any help would be appreciated.
I'm preparing to update my forums to 1.2. I understand how to make a backup of my forums using phpMyAdmin, but what I'm curious of is how I would go about putting that backup back onto the server to use should something go wrong with the update. I'd really appreciate any help someone could offer.
Notice: Undefined variable: server_response in /home/bigforkf/public_html/beta/include/email.php on line 90
That is repeated six times.
When I try and use the subscribe to topic, or internal email system - the email gets sent, but the redirect page displays a series of errors. They go by too fast for me to read, but I thought I'd mention it.
Name: Paul Sullivan (the other one)
Where do you live: Montana, USA
Interests: I like to play tennis, read, mess around with my computer and hang out with friends.
What do you do for a living: I graduated from College (University) last year with a degree in philosophy, and now I'm taking a year off before I go to law school next year.
Age: 23
Safari - I have FF downloaded too and use it occasionally.
Thanks - I think i've got it working now.
setcookie ('user_name', '', time()-300, '/', '', 0);
Any ideas why that doesn't work to erase the data in my cookie? I know the if loop is executing because things after that in the code are happening fine. I'm not getting an error message - but the value for user_name stays the same. I'd really appreciate any help I could get. Thanks,
paul
i think we're supposed to rebel against something or another... but that's about as far as I can get with it.
Worked like a charm! Thanks a ton - I never would have figured that out on my own. I have managed to do quite a bit on my own - which I mean as the highest compliment to your bb given my level of skill. Thanks for such a great product and your help.
I'm trying to add a small login box to the main page (in main.tpl). The thing is that I'd like it to only show up if the user isn't logged in. I've tried playing around with an if ($cookie['is_guest']) but to be honest I really don't know php all that well and since it's a tpl file - I can't get the code to execute. Here's what I did to main.tpl (the relevant section at least):
<table class="punmain" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4">
<tr class="punhead">
<td class="punhead">
<span class="puntitle"><pun_title></span><br>
<pun_desc>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="puncon1">
<table width="100%"><tr><td>
<pun_navlinks><br><br>
<pun_status>
</td>
echo '<td align="right">
<form method="post" action="login.php?action=in" id="login">
<input type="hidden" name="form_sent" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="redirect_url" value="login.php">
Name: <input type="text" name="req_username" size="11" maxlength="25"><br>
Password: <input type="password" name="req_password" size="11" maxlength="16"><br>
</form></td>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
After uploading the files I tried to run the script and got the following error:
Warning: main(./include/dblayer/common_db.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Library/WebServer/Documents/punbb/11_to_115_update.php on line 60
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks,
paul
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