Thread: Dolphin-v.5.3 released

Just to let you know a new version has been released Dolphin-v.5.3 released

So far it looks as though they have changed their license at the top of every file from:

/************************************************** *************************
* Dolphin Web Community Software
* -------------------
* begin : Mon Mar 23 2006
* copyright : (C) 2006 BoonEx Group
* website : http://www.boonex.com
*
*
*
************************************************** **************************/

/************************************************** *************************
*
* This is a free software; you can modify it under the terms of BoonEx
* Product License Agreement published on BoonEx site at http://www.boonex.com/downloads/license.pdf
* You may not however distribute it for free or/and a fee.
* This notice may not be removed from the source code. You may not also remove any other visible
* reference and links to BoonEx Group as provided in source code.
*
************************************************** *************************/

To:

/************************************************** *************************
* Dolphin Smart Community Builder
* -------------------
* begin : Mon Mar 23 2006
* copyright : (C) 2006 BoonEx Group
* website : http://www.boonex.com
* This file is part of Dolphin - Smart Community Builder
*
* Dolphin is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
* the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
* Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
* License, or any later version.
*
* Dolphin is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
* without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
* See the GNU General Public License for more details.
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Dolphin,
* see license.txt file; if not, write to marketing@boonex.com
************************************************** *************************/

Although I have found some other differences I am still looking into it all to get an overall view of what 5.3 has to offer. As every file has this license update it will take a few for me to disect which files are actually being changed here. I'll let you know what I find. It's nice to see that dolph has moved to a GPL vs boonex. Here's hoping that they removed the callback. As of right now I'm noticing a good number of changes here. I'll have a full report soon.

I'm about to go to bed - but this is perhaps good news - as the previous boonex license for dolphin was just wAcKy!

On their site "...dumped distribution of dating software. Additionally, we made Dolphin a truly FREE software. Now it is licensed under GNU GPL."

Want to read up on GPL?

Try these links:

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License

Smoge

Originally Posted by lodlock

I'll have a full report soon.

I will load it into Subversion (CVS) tomorrow - and do a report from there - see what has changed..... also looking forward to what differences you see.

Smoge

I guess if it is GPL I can post it for download.

http://www.modmysite.com/downloads/Dolphin-v.5.3.zip

Smoge

Good point. They increased security for the 777'd dirs such as id_wav, id_avi, and id_img with a new .htaccess to stop remove execution.

.htaccess inside of each of these:

Code:

Options -Indexes
<FilesMatch "^.*\.php|.*\.html$">
ForceType application/x-httpd-php-source
</FilesMatch>

Sent out this message:

Dolphin v5.3 has been released, under the GPL license!

This is perhaps great news, as finally the script has moved into the public domain (under the terms of the license), which brings with it many possibilities.

One of these possibilities is the ability for us now to setup and maintain a public CVS repository.

There is a thread on ModMySite about this here:
Dolphin-v.5.3 released

Also, version 5.3 is available for download here:
http://www.modmysite.com/downloads/Dolphin-v.5.3.zip

With warm regards,

The ModMySite Team
http://www.modmysite.com
support@modmysite.com

So far it looks as though the callback has been removed and ray has been patched up a good bit. I'll stop throwing in pieces and parts I find and just give a report when I have it ready.

Actually, any bug fixes I don't really care about (much) - it's the GPL that is the most important and exciting part of this release.....

I have been itching for a while now to setup and maintain a public CVS repository - previous to this, we only used CVS for customer work since it was highly restricted before under the previous license.

With GPL - we can do a public CVS for Dolphin now - and all can benefit from fixes and mods - they can be rolled into the CVS tree.



Smoge

in sdating.php the following error: Parse error: parse error, unexpected ')' in /siti/incontriamocionline.it/sdating.php on line 154