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Here is the code in question:

    function correctRender() {

        if (class_exists('plgSystemRedact')) {

            $db =& JFactory::getDBO();

            $query = 'SELECT a.params AS params'

                    .' FROM jos_plugins AS a'

                    .' WHERE a.element = \'redact\''

                    .' AND a.folder = \'system\''

                    .' AND a.published = 1';

            $db->setQuery($query, 0, 1);

            $params = $db->loadObject();

            if(isset($params->params) && $params->params != '') {

                $params->params = str_replace('phoca.cz', 'phoca_cz', $params->params);

                $params->params = str_replace('phoca\.cz', 'phoca_cz', $params->params);

                if ($params->params != '') {

                    $query = 'UPDATE jos_plugins'

                            .' SET params = \''.$params->params.'\''

                            .' WHERE element = \'redact\''

                            .' AND folder = \'system\'';

                    $db->setQuery($query);

                    $db->query();

                }

            }

        

        }

        if (class_exists('plgSystemReReplacer')) {

            $db =& JFactory::getDBO();

            $query = 'SELECT a.id, a.search'

                    .' FROM jos_rereplacer AS a'

                    .' WHERE (a.search LIKE \'%phoca.cz%\''

                    .' OR a.search LIKE \'%phoca\\\\\\\\.cz%\')'

                    .' AND a.published = 1';

            $db->setQuery($query);

            $search = $db->loadObjectList();

            

            if(isset($search) && count($search)) {

                

                foreach ($search as $value) {

                    if (isset($value->search) && $value->search != '' && isset($value->id) && $value->id > 0) {

                        $value->search = str_replace('phoca.cz', 'phoca_cz', $value->search);

                        $value->search = str_replace('phoca\.cz', 'phoca_cz', $value->search);

                        if ($value->search != '') {

                            $query = 'UPDATE jos_rereplacer'

                            .' SET search = \''.$value->search.'\''

                            .' WHERE id = '.(int)$value->id;

                            $db->setQuery($query);

                            $db->query();

                        }

                    }

                }

            }

        }

    

    }

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Hi, Ken McDonald (kenmcd),

It is NEVER acceptable to delete anything in a user's database or on their website without their knowledge and permission.

It is NEVER acceptable that some extension gives the tool to violate copyrights. The modifications are only protection of copyrights.

So in fact, you, Ken McDonald, are the killer of free extensions and of free software as you cannot think forward.

As I wrote you many times, the Phoca Gallery is free extension. I am only one who develop it. And I have strange time issues. I am not able to answer all the posts in the forum, I am not able to help people on their servers (as I usually do), I am not able to email them the support. So the link in footer is very important to the project. As you know I am helping to every people. For people who try to ask posts in the forum regularly or contribute to the project with translation or improvement I give advices how to hide the link.

It is an enormours help for me, if e.g. people try to help me with answering the posts in the forum. But it seems, you don't know the word "help".

After you will help a lot of people I have helped (of course for free) then please come here and you can write your ideas about open source which are of course wrong. With your ideas you can only stop free extensions development and supporting commercial extensions. (Are you supporting some commercial extensions? It seems yes, because you are fighting against all possible free extensions)


So, lets sum it up.
Please,  Ken McDonald,
- after you will do over 50 free extensions as I did
- after you will help a lot of people via email as I do
- after you will help a lot of people on their servers as I do
- after you will make over 12000 answers on different Joomla! forums as I did
- after you will spend parts of donation to beneficence as I do
- after you will help with sites for not profit organizations for free as I do

then you can write here your ideas about open source but before it, don't damage other projects, please do, do something useful.

Jan

In fact I don't have any friends on Joomla! forum :-( but I think they did (not removed the post but removed a part which destroys specific project) because they see I have no wrong intentions.

I am trying to help people (really, I do - on the internet you can see so many demonstrations). I don't fight against other people who help others. The only one thing I did (regarding your person), I only corrected the false information you have pasted, nothing more ... (maybe this was the start of your activities, no idea) I don't have any aims to solving such topics. I want to do what I allway did - creating extensions and helping people to build their sites. Such conversations take my time which I could spent to other activities. :-( :-( :-(

Belive me, I am not happy to solve such problems. I am not happy to spam forum of other Joomla! developer :-( No motivation for doing it. :-(

Jan

First off, welcome to the discussion, Jan.

Second, let me make it clear that this discussion will remain civil and refrain from personal attacks. We have a strong difference of opinion here; I expect the discussion to remain about the issues, not about people. Ken, accusing Jan of getting his "cronies/friends" to edit posts is not appropriate. As far as I know it's forum policy to not allow the posting of hacks of any kind, be they good, bad or otherwise. Let's stuck to verifiable facts, please. Jan, Ken has a right to his opinion independent of whether or not he's made the same level of contribution as you or I have.

I will remove anyone who disrespects the forum, whether they agree with my personal opinions or not. Now onto the issues.

Jan, we have an obvious difference of interpretation in the GPL. I think the lengths that you go to to ensure a back-link is there violate the spirit of open source; you think the opposite. You think I'm wrong, I think you're wrong. I don't expect to convince you (except maybe if we do it over a beer where we could really talk it through). As you say we can go through a process of escalating countermeasures, but it's a waste of your time and mine.

I have posted everywhere that I think people who remove the back-link on a commercial site have a moral and ethical obligation to send you a donation. I think you have a right to deny support to anyone who has removed the back-links and not donated. I also think that the number of people who will turn the links on before asking for support and then turn them off again is negligible... and often easy to discover.

I honestly don't care if my extensions are "hacked"... in fact, I intend for them to be hacked. If someone wants to tackle it, they're free to do so. As long as the source code retains my copyright, IMO the fundamental intent of the GPL is to allow hacking. If I felt otherwise I'd be offering encrypted commercial extensions. Hell, I'd be working in a proprietary CMS.

As you point out, supporting an extension is not a small job, so if someone wants to create a new work from my code and take on that work, more luck to them. Our support is first class and I bet it won't be long before they come back. If we release significantly complex extensions, we'll make the source openly available but charge for support. This seems a reasonable model to me, because only those who incur additional costs are paying for the service.

Rather than spend time doing this, I would much rather spend my time replacing extensions that are proprietary with GPL versions. I think that extension developers who don't provide source code are not only violating the GPL but effectively stealing from those of us who have contributed to the project, benefiting from our work without adhering to the terms that we released it under.

Our Redaction extension was first developed to remove links from extensions that claimed they were GPL without providing source, and we've always tried to make the implications of doing this -- in terms of end-user licenses -- clear to the people who use it.

Hi, first I accept your ideas but let me know some small idea:

"I have posted everywhere that I think people who remove the back-link on a commercial site have a moral and ethical obligation to send you a donation."

This is like you will make a gun and will write a guide how to kill people (see post above, you write here like to remove Phoca copyright notice.) You didn't do only the gun (create an extensions which allows to remove the links) but you have created the guide how to kill people too (writing how to remove the link for other extensions). So any other ideas (to write people that they should make a donation or other information) are then unnecessary :-( - This is my opinion so I don't say it is fact ...

kenmcd

If I did the protection of Phoca Gallery copyright, I thougt, it will be not good to restrict some other extensions, I wanted NOT to rescrict the Abivia extensions, so I have make only modifications to not remove the Phoca copyright. It means, I wanted that the Abivia extension can still work with Phoca Gallery so other Abivia features can be used.

Ok, you are writing it is bad because you change the data in database. Ok, so I will do it other way :-( Not happy but I will make Phoca Gallery working only if this extension is not installed. Let say the requirement of running Phoca Gallery will be: Not installed Abivia extension. I hope this is right and clear for all sites because I will limit only Phoca Gallery extensiosn. It will not work if the Abivia extension is installed.