1 Reply by Panos

(15 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Well... this issue is a bit complicating. According to the GPL, if you make modifications to the original PunBB code, which always contains a copy of the GPL itself, then you will have to release the modified code under the GPL, unless of course you have done so for your site only and for your personal use and thus are not willing to release the modified software.

On the subject of styles or graphics now. If you release a completely new style, not based on an original GPL'd style in any way, then you may distribute it as you see fit. Again, as long as it has nothing to do with PunBB code which is licensed under the GPL! The same goes for graphics as CodeXP correctly mentioned. If you create your own graphics, and I mean your very own graphics (!), then you may also keep them for yourself and let people know that you are not willing to distribute these graphics under the terms of the GPL!

To cut it short. If you modify GPL'd content, whether that is PunBB's code, a GPL'd PunBB style etc, then you have to re-distribute it under the terms of the GPL, if of course you decide to do so!

You may read the whole text of the GNU GPL:

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

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2 Reply by Panos

(6 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

Yep. Really nice styles and great integration as well wink Looks like PunBB users have a really good taste big_smile

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3 Reply by Panos

(11 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

I really like the style! Keep up the good work wink

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4 Reply by Panos

(7 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

I'm sorry I didn't see this earlier. Brett, this is a very nice site you have there! Congrats wink

I would like to respond to your questions but the guys have caught up with me smile

Stay "heavy" man! Rock on wink

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5 Reply by Panos

(3 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

It looks really nice nonetheless! I do wish you all the best with the site wink

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6 Reply by Panos

(6 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

Many thanks binou smile

Now to the font size issue, I managed to solve it by making things a lot less simpler than they were, by removing any unnecessary CSS properties and values (especially the font-related ones) from my main pages stylesheet.

in essence, what I did was clone my site's stylesheet, strip it from any unnecessary properties and values, save it by using another name and re-linking it. This way, the PunBB forums wrap up nicely and furthermore, the styling is assigned to the Oxygen.css stylesheet. Simple as that. I decided to test it on a friend's machine who uses Windows and it displayed correctly on IE. That was after my previous post of course.

On another IE-related note. Those of you that use IE, should know that prior to IE 7, PNG Alpha-Transparency is not supported. Unfortunately, my site uses images in .png format. IE 7 however can display png images correctly.

Thank you very much for the help guys! smile

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7 Reply by Panos

(6 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

Thanks for the heads-up Paul! I don't use IE and have completely forgotten the text-resizing issue. Sorry about that. I don't like absolute font sizes either and am planning on changing the style sheets later and implement relative font sizing. Now, I hope that everything works as expected. I inserted the code inside my main.tpl file. The changes are as follows:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html dir="<pun_content_direction>">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<pun_char_encoding>" />
<pun_head>
<!-- My site's CSS -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://www.support-freesoftware.org/templates/sfs/css/template_css.css" />
<style type="text/css">
/* Fix for IE versions that do not support text-resizing - Many thanks to Paul from the PunBB forums! */
/* IEWin Font Size only - to allow IEWin to zoom. Do not remove comments \*/
* HTML .pun {FONT-SIZE: 68.75%}
/* End IE Win Font Size */
</style>
<!-- My site's CSS -->
</head>
....

Please let me know if it works. Cheers! smile

Edit: Issue fixed... finally! See post below smile

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8 Reply by Panos

(3 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

Nice work binou! The color scheme looks great! Now, I wish I knew French so that i could actually check out the content sad

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9 Reply by Panos

(6 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

Many thanks elbekko smile I really appreciate your input and as a matter of fact, I must check out your site and mods as well. I am fairly new to PunBB but with my knowledge of PHP and MySQL all I can say is that it's one of the most cleanly-coded BBs out there, if not the cleanest!

Thank you again for your input and I hope to see you at the forums smile

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10 Topic by Panos

(6 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

After 2 months of exhaustingly trying various CMSs and Discussion Boards, I finally ended up implementing Joomla and PunBB for our website http://www.support-freesoftware.org.

Support-FreeSoftware.org is a website created by the webmaster of the "late" promote-opensource.org, that is, yours truly. Our site's goal is to promote further and advocate Free and Open Source Software and by posting easy to read and understand tutorials and various articles, bring it to the masses.

As for the site, it consists of two parts. The main page, which is powered by Joomla and the Community page which is powered by PunBB. Anyone can join the main page and become a publisher upon contacting me, but everyone can register and use our PunBB-powered forums, post their questions and so forth.

The site's theme is very simple. Minimalistic design but semantically correct output, to the best possible extent has been my goal and one I hope that I have accomplished.

I would like to thank you for reading this, and above all I would like to thank the punBB developers for an excellent job! Keep up the great work guys!

Panos

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