Looking For Developers To Help With A Forum Software

[demonlord 0]

Ok so as the topic title says i'm looking for some Developers to help with a forum software. Just a little back ground on the software. It was started back in 2005, and has been sold 2 times, the second time which was a few months ago the owner abandoned the project and left it to die. (which it did) Now under the Licensen it says that you are aloud to make a forked version of the software, and once you have changed over 50% you may remove all refrence of the orginal script. So that is what I'm planing on doing. I arleady have one delveloper who was one of the orginal developers for the software, and he has agreed to bring with him the code base for the next version that he was working on. all we need is some help. We will take help from any one we can get as long as you know what you are doing. This will have to be free work as we don't have the funds to pay anyone, and we dont plan on paying anyone. We are also looking for some one to help design the new look for the script.If you would like to help or if you have any questions, you can post them here or you can send me a PM.Thanks, William

[rvalkass 5]

What language is the forum being written in? You can't really ask for developers without saying what language you want them to write code in!

Do you have the full text of the original licence?

What licence are you releasing your version of the forum software under?

How big is the current codebase? Do you have good source code control set up (SVN)?

[demonlord 0]

the script is written in php and use mysql

yes

here is the licence that we will be using:

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Permission is hereby granted, to any entity who has obtained a copy of this software and

associated documentation files (the "Software"), the rights to use on as many domains as

the entity wishes, modify the source code to their needs, release their modifications at a price

or for free, to make templates/skins and to release them at a price or for free.

 

BY USING THIS SOFTWARE YOU AGREE NOT TO CHARGE ANY ENTITY FOR DISTRIBUTION, THIS SOFTWARE IS NOT TO

BE IN ANY COMPRESSED FILE, CD OR DISKETTE WHERE IT WILL BE CHARGED FOR.

 

BY USING THIS SOFTWARE YOU AGREE NOT TO REMOVE THE COPYRIGHT INFORMATION WHICH INLUDES THE NOTE

IN THE FOOTER AS WELL AS THE NOTES IN THE FILES UNLESS YOU HAVE PAID TO DO SO.

DOING SO WITHOUT PAYMENT IS A VIOLATION OF THIS LICENSE.

 

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,

INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,

FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.

IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM,

DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,

OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

FOR ANY ENTITY WHO HAS OBTAINED THIS SOFTWARE ALL AVAILABLE SUPPORT WILL BE GIVEN FOR BUGS, MODIFYING ETC

BUT THE AUTHOR(S) WILL NOT BE HELD LIABLE IF SOMETHING HAPPENS TO YOUR SYSTEM.

 

IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS LICENSE PLEASE DELETE THE SOFTWARE.

as for how big the current code base is is there are a total of 38 files, not counting the template files. and we have not got a source code control setup yet as we are still trying to decided on one, any suggestons

Edited June 15, 2008 by demonlord (see edit history)

[jlhaslip 4]

Do you have a demo site installed anywhere? Or a zip file for download?

[demonlord 0]

demo site can be found at http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

[rvalkass 5]

and we have not got a source code control setup yet as we are still trying to decided on one, any suggestons

SVN with Trac is a pretty good choice. That way you'll get source code control, issue tracking, bug control, timelines, even a wiki, all set up for you.