#+title: About metanohi #+summary: A short description of what metanohi is #+license: bysa #&toc * About metanohi This is metanohi. Currently, metanohi resides on *metanohi.name*. Originally, it was on *metanohi.org* which now redirects requests to .name. To contact [[./niels][Niels]] (the creator), contact him at [[mailto:ns@metanohi.name][ns@metanohi.name]] {(ns@metanohi.org redirects all mails to that address)}&small. metanohi is XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2 valid (mostly). Currently, metanohi.name pages are served as text/html and not as application/xml+xhtml (as they should). This might get fixed. ** Copying In general, text, images, and other media on metanohi is licensed under the [[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/][Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0]] license, a *copyleft* license. There may be cases with other licenses. The status of a page can be seen in the bottom in a metadata box. If no license is specified in the box, it's either because someone forgot to apply one to the page, or it's because the page has almost no content (like the "Page not found" page) and does not really require a license. #+caption: Free content #&img;url=/img/licenses/freecontent.png, float=right Most of metanohi's content can be defined as free content, as defined by [[http://freedomdefined.org/][freedomdefined.org]]. In all cases, you are free to redistribute content from metanohi, but please don't set up a mirror for no reason (who would do that, anyway?). External content is sometimes a different matter. [[./media-licenses][A list of licenses for media]] is used for attributing in cases where it is impractical to attribute in-page. If you take something from metanohi that is not under a public-domain-like license, you are required to attribute Niels Serup and metanohi. When doing that, write something like "Niels Serup, [[http://metanohi.name/][metanohi.name]]". A few pages, like [[/projects/][this one]], have a lot of Python code for in-page evaluation and execution. This might not be the most secure thing to allow, but since only one person can change it, it is deemed safe enough. Any such nontrivial code is licensed under the same license as [[/projects/mege/][mege]], i.e. AGPLv3+, unless otherwise noted. This might seem like overkill in some situations, but with only one license in use, simplicity is achieved. ** Source If you wish to use [[/projects/mege/][mege]] for a website, you may wish to use metanohi as a template. Get the main site: : $ git clone git://metanohi.name/metanohi-metanohi Get the subsites: : $ git clone git://metanohi.name/metanohi-meta ** History #+caption: This alien wonders why 'metanohi' was picked. #&img;url=/img/aliens/makrh.png, float=right, width=100 metanohi was created in 2009 as a spinoff of earlier projects with equally undefined purposes. *Note:* While most of the content from the old metanohi has been ported to this improved version, the modification times have not been saved. This is why old projects from 2009 and 2010 appear to have been created in July or August, 2011. *** "Why the name?" There are several reasons: + It's unique + It's simple + It has the meta prefix, which automatically transforms anything into something cool + 'metanohi', or at least part of 'metanohi', has meanings in some languages *** Screenshots of the old metanohi Click to go to fullsize image. #&img;url=img/scr1.png,width=300,float=left,noclear,medlink,caption=Start page #&img;url=img/scr2.png,width=300,float=left,noclear,medlink,caption=Projects page #&img;url=img/scr3.png,width=300,float=left,noclear,medlink,caption=CSS fun ** Language metanohi is only available in English.