All patches and comments are welcome. Please squash your changes to logical
commits before using git-format-patch and git-send-email to
patches@git.madduck.net.
If you'd read over the Git project's submission guidelines and adhered to them,
I'd be especially grateful.
3 template-encoding: utf8
7 .. credits.txt -- site credits
9 Copyright © martin f. krafft <madduck ät debian.org>
10 Released under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-
11 NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Licence:
12 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
14 Part of the source code for the site http://people.debian.org/~madduck/
16 svn: http://svn.madduck.net/pub/debian/web/people.debian.org--madduck/
21 This site was built with a number of open-source software products. I feel it
22 is important to give enough credit to the involved people, who spend their
23 free time developing and supporting these software suites.
25 Open-source software has numerous advantages over proprietary, commercial
28 - It is developed by users of the software, not people trying to make money by
29 selling it. As a direct consequence, it doesn't suffer from the marketing
30 syndrome, and it provides the features that users need, not those which the
31 company wants to sell.
33 - The source code is available to everyone. Not only does this mean that
34 anyone can modify the product to better suit their needs, it also greatly
35 facilitates problem-solving, since one can inspect the source of any
38 - Open-source software has a large community using and supporting it. Direct
39 help from the developers is absolutely no rarity, and if they are not
40 available, then numerous (experienced) users are ready to help one, and to
41 work with one to solve any problems.
43 - And last, but very much not least: Open-source software is free. No
44 complicated and capitalistic licensing models, no "software assurance" or
45 similarly flawed license subscriptions, no problems with upgrades, and a lot
46 more money left for other things.
48 As said, this site was created with a number of open-source software suites.
49 In particular, I would like to thank:
51 - The `Debian`_ team for the operating system (who would have thought?). Debian
52 is copyright © by `Software in the Public Interest`_.
54 .. _Debian: http://debian.org
55 .. _Software in the Public Interest: http://spi-inc.org
57 - The `Python`_ team for the programming language. Python is copyright ©
58 by the `Python Software Foundation`_
60 .. _Python: http://python.org
61 .. _Python Software Foundation: http://python.org/psf
63 - Michael Foord for `rest2web`_, the site builder framework. rest2web is ©
66 .. _rest2web: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/rest2web/
67 .. _Voidspace: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/
69 - The `Apache`_ team for the web server. Apache is copyright © by the `Apache
70 Software Foundation`_.
72 .. _Apache: http://httpd.apache.org
73 .. _Apache Software Foundation: http://apache.org/foundation/