I am wanting to upgrade my website to .761. I have setup my test site and have found that the Daily Archive module does not work under .761 . After looking around a bit I have found that this module has not been updated in quite some time. Since the module is an important part of my site I have decided that I want to try and upgrade it. I'm wanting to make it pnRender and pnAPI compliant.
My question is do I need to contact the original author of the module and get permission before I upgrade it? I will definately leave the credit information in, since I'm not writing the module only upgrading it.
Thanks
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Posted: Nov 15, 2005 - 02:41 AM
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My question is do I need to contact the original author of the module and get permission before I upgrade it? I will definately leave the credit information in, since I'm not writing the module only upgrading it.
No you don't need permission. What might be nice though is if you contact the author once you're done and offer your upgraded version to him for future maintainance. If he's not interesting in doing so, you could maintain the module for the benefit of the community ... either way, as long as you comply with the terms of the GPL (assuming that that's the license the module is distributed under) you're pretty much free to do whatever you want ...
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Posted: Nov 15, 2005 - 02:58 AM
If the module is GPL then no you don't need to contact the author - although I would drop them an e-mail to let them know you plan to do so (common courtesy). As long as you maintin any in-code credits then your free to continue the development of this module.
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Posted: Nov 15, 2005 - 07:00 AM
Thank you for the replies. I will try and contact the author of the module if I can. My fear was more of if I can't contact them am I still ok to do this. Thanks again.
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