Also worth noting: Some clients have a distinct brand that must be followed explicitly and a cakephp logo is not part of their branding.
There is also the issue of hacking. If there is a known (and unpatched) issue in CakePHP and you stamp 'made with cakephp' across your site then you are giving the hacker a free pass. Not suggesting for a moment there are any holes in cake, but this is exactly the reason why a lot of sites hide information about their back end. There's also nothing stopping you (apart from a client request not to), writing a blog article about how the site was built that points to the site in question ;-) On Jun 10, 2:43 pm, "Jonathan Snook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So many sites though, (like those found in the 'CakePHP in the wild' > > page) have stripped the logo out, and leave no credit or > > acknowledgment to the foundation. > > We take them out because we build sites that are about the solution, > not the tools we use to build them. It's the same reason you won't > find badges for Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL, the ISP, the web designer, > the web developer, the UX designer, the W3C etc. Everybody along the > line has a hand in the site and having the equivalent of movie credits > at the bottom of every page would be distracting and is unnecessary. > > Two alternatives: > > 1. Include a link that links to a page about how the site is put > together. Some people are genuinely interested in this. "Curious about > how this site is built?" that kind of thing. > > 2. Donate back to the CakePHP community by helping others, working on > docs, test cases or donating cold hard cash (I've tried to do all of > those). > > Lastly, there's nothing wrong with keeping the badge on as you have > and by all means, continue to do so. But be careful in deriding the > rest of us for not doing so. > > Thanks for your continued support of CakePHP! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
