#+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), you should still use [[mailto:ns@metanohi.org][ns@metanohi.org]] instead of ns@metanohi.name&del.

metanohi is XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2 valid (probably).

** 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]]".

** 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.

*** "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.