Comments on: What is Carrington? The Q&A

By: Daniel Koskinen

Daniel Koskinen — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:28:48 +0000

I’m also curious about the developer licence, and especially what I get for if I decide to buy it. Does it include any kind of premium support? Or am I simply paying to support your development? If it’s the latter, you should perhaps refer to it as a Donation, not a Licence.

I’ve already built a few sites using Carrington and think it’s great. They’re fairly big sites so I’d be happy to pay for a dev licence IF that means some kind of security in getting support (I’ve got a Gravity Forms dev licence and think their model works well). I don’t want to simply pay for all the people who are using it for free.

By: Wroth

Wroth — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:04:18 +0000

Yes I saw that, I don’t think there is any doubt what license it’s released under but rather doubt about what that license means in practice. I read the GPL but it can be a bit confusing for someone not used to reading open source license language, statements in the License like “When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for them if you wish)” make the use of the term of ‘free’ a little fuzzy, you know? And I would like to be clear not fuzzy on the matter

It’d be great to get an outline about the responsibilities for fees and attribution taken on for different types of use? As well as any other optional ways we could help support the project. So that we are sure to live up to those responsibilities once we understand what they are. [ I might suggest also that this site here links to the shop at CF, because I only found the shop there by accident ] I don’t see price tags all over the place here so I am assuming for design work based on JAM there are no mandatory fees, but I don’t want to proceed on an assumption without paying you all your due

By: Alex King

Alex King — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:03:15 +0000

We tried to make this explicit by putting this on the about page and at the top of the sidebar on ever page:

Carrington is a CMS theme framework for WordPress from Crowd Favorite. License: GPL

Purchasing a developer license supports our development of the framework and themes – we hope that you will.

By: jlindo

jlindo — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:47:58 +0000

I am wondering the same thing. I’m looking for a definitive answer on licensing and attribution but haven’t had any luck yet. Does anybody know where we can find this info? Thanks!

By: Wroth

Wroth — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:34:08 +0000

Wrt the line: “The Carrington CMS theme framework has always been free, Open Source under the GPL.”… I am a little confused because I noticed the Crowd Favorite website store sells a “Developer License”, though I see no reference to that product on the carringtontheme.com site. Would I need to purchase that License before I could use Carrington JAM as a basis for a commercial website?

By: Alex King

Alex King — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:42:19 +0000

Or you could put it in the “Footer code (for analytics, etc.)” field in the admin and not have to modify the theme code at all.

The best venue for community Carrington support is our Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/carrington-framework rather than comments on misc. blog posts. Thanks!

By: Sridhar

Sridhar — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:39:11 +0000

[UPDATE] I’ve spent ten minutes to figure out the page where I can paste Google analytics script in Carrington theme. The page is footer-default.php
Hope this saves some time for people searching for tag in carringtom theme to install google analytics script.

By: Sridhar

Sridhar — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:58:03 +0000

I love your framework(atleast till the moment I wrote this comment) . I have installed it on my blog. I am a developer with basic knowledge in php, css. Hoping that I’d keep your theme on my site for a long time. Anyways thanks for releasing this framework under public domain.

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By: justyle

justyle — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:29:16 +0000

FIXED! sorry i saw that you could alter the default number of posts in the custom carrington settings. so after setting it to 10, i noted that it generated a next and previous pagnination.