[dev] [cvs] commit: horde/templates common-header.inc

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

>> Sending copyright notices with every generated page is a *complete*  
>> waste of time and bandwidth.  Especially since Horde has no  
>> copyright claim to the generated page.
>
> Not on the generated pages but on the applications that generate  
> them, which is expressed by the wording of the copyright headers  
> IMO, e.g.:
> Passwd: Copyright 2002-2009 The Horde Project

Still don't see why we need to broadcast this on the output page  
though.  When you use, say, Microsoft Office to create a document, it  
doesn't throw a bunch of unneeded copyright language into the  
generated document.

> Most importantly though, this is the only place in the application  
> interface for end users which references to the Horde Project as the  
> originator of the software. This is a strong point, and the  
> additional few bytes are really neglectable.

IIRC, this removal was at least partially motivated by the removal of  
the copyright/author information from the Help pages.  In other words,  
removing references to Horde that might cause more uneducated users to  
needlessly complain to us when something is wrong with a Horde install.

And for the few bytes comment - I disagree (of course, I do understand  
I am fairly extreme when it comes to slimming down page sizes, code,  
etc...).  When dealing with large systems, every little bit helps in  
my book.

And how many people realistically have scanned the source code in the  
past and used that to become aware of Horde?  My guess is that the  
vast (99.9%) majority of people have instead gone to Google, typed in  
"web framework", "webmail", "php groupware", etc, and discovered us  
through that instead.  This is probably similar to someone who creates  
a graphic with Gimp.  There's a possibility that Gimp throws in a  
"Created with Gimp" line in image formats that support metadata, but I  
doubt that the inclusion of this information has made a discernable  
difference in that software's popularity.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]