In my trolls around the internet I’ve seen several conflicting footers with regards to credits to Manji. I guess this is my fault since to be honest I don’t have a readme file that states any of this. I’m going to hopefully finish this off in the next couple of days along with the user manual for all you newbies who would like to understand the structure and how you can go about actually skinning Manji.

I will say that the majority of the sites I’ve been to that have used Manji have left the credits in tack and in some cases gone a bit further and given me copyright of their blog as well ^_^. Needless to say YourSite is NOT copyright of Khaled Abou Alfa. Your site is your copyright. I’ve got to say that I’m really proud of you guys for being so honest and cool about keeping the Manji credit in tact.

Which leads me to my next point. Could all those using the preview version of Manji (around 1000 downloads) make the link back to manji the following:

Many people are getting this page when they link to this site, kind of defeats the object doesn’t it? http://www.brokenkode.com/index.php?p=470

In the meantime I’ll say this about the footer credits. I guess all I ask is that you keep one line in there:

Manji designed by Khaled Abou Alfa & Root.

That’s all I ask (of course and keeping the proper creditation in the css and the GPL license). Which funnly enough brings me to my final point about this I promise. There has been some talk about people releasing their Manji flavours to the world at large. In fact Scott has already released his Flavour for Wordpress Version 1.2. Personally I’m all for this effort. It’s what GPL is all about. Community and people adding to something someone started or whatever. It’s more fun that way.

So what happens then? Well then the footer does change and personnally I’d really like it to be something along the lines of the following:

YourName Flavoured Manji: Designed by Your Name. Based wholely upon the Manji template(or code, whatever suits you more) developed by khaled abou alfa & root.

In the CSS your name gets added to the list of people before you. So my name and Root’s and then yours and then the next person after you. To be honest none of this will ever get policed. It’s just a courtesy thing really nothing more nothing less.