Moodle itself is Copyright © 2001-2003, Martin Dougiamas. It is distributed under the GNU Public License.
Many thanks to these people - each translation takes many hours of work, as there are over 1000 phrases to translate (plus all the help files!). These are listed in the order that languages were added to the project:
- fr - French, by Sébastien Namèche, seb@gaia.anet.fr, http://gaia.anet.fr/
- fi - Finnish, by Petri Asikainen (paca@sci.fi), Jaana Tolvanen (jaanat@cedunet.com)
- it - Italian, by Davide Suraci (icarused@tiscalinet.it) and Roberto Pinna (bobo@mfn.unipmn.it)
- pt_br - Portuguese (Brazil), by Paula A. Santos (paulasantos@lycos.co.uk), Adriana Beal (adriana@vydia.com.br), Fabricio Valadares (webdesigner@unincor.br)
- de - German, by Holger Schadeck (Holger.Schadeck@webdesign-forum.de)
- es_mx - Spanish (Mexico), by Claudio Tavares, enlaceacademico.com
- es_es - Spanish , by Antonio J. Navarro Vergara (anavarro@sextaisla.com) www.sextaisla.com and Emmanuelle Gutiérrez y Restrepo (emmanuelle@sidar.org)
- ca - Catalan, by Carles Bellver with the help of Mercè Renau, Clara Andrés and Jordi Adell (cent@uji.es) Centre d'Educació i Noves Tecnologies
- no - Norwegian, by Jøran Sørbø (joran.sorbo@teleweb.no) and Stig Bjarne Haugen (Stig.B.Haugen@hinesna.no)
- id - Indonesian, by Arfan Hidayat (ivanh@telkom.net) http://www.kursusmaya.com
- ja - Japanese, by Mitsuhiro Yoshida (mits@mitstek.com) http://mitstek.com
- tr - Turkish, by M. Cüneyt Birkök (cuneyt@birkok.net) http://birkok.net
- zh_cn - Chinese (Simplified), by Zhang Dexuan (cncoolbit@hotmail.com)
- ar - Arabic, by Ahmed Nabil (ana@harf.com)
- sv - Swedish, by Set Lonnert (set@setlonnert.com) http://setlonnert.com
- th - Thai, by Wim Singhanart (minkowski@ntlworld.com) www.suthira.net
- nl - Dutch, by Hans Zwart (hans@hansdezwart.info), Jacob Romeyn (jromeyn@thekingsschool.net) and Koen Roggemans (koen.roggemans@pandora.be)
- es_ar - Spanish (Argentina), by Rodrigo Vigil (rmvigil@frre.utn.edu.ar)
- cz - Czech, by David Mudrak (mudrd8mz@nwit.pedf.cuni.cz)
- pt - Portuguese, by Jaime E. Villate (villate@gnu.org)
- sk - Slovakian, by PRO-Orava, managed by Pavol Jackulik (pavol.jackulik@pro-orava.sk)
- ro - Romanian, by Eugen Tanul (roinstitute@fx.ro)
- ru - Russian, by Ilia Chipitsine (ilia@chel.skbkontur.ru)
- da - Danish, by Søren Vinther Hansen (info@thenavigator.dk)
- pl - Polish, by Adam Pawelczak (adamp@wsb.poznan.pl)
- zh_tw - Chinese (Traditional) , by Fu-Kwun Hwang (hwang@phy.ntnu.edu.tw)
- fr_ca - French (Canada), by Jean-François Nadeau (JFNadeau@coll-outao.qc.ca), based on French
- hu - Hungarian, by Istvan Bozsa (bozsa@jht.gau.hu)
Themes give Moodle sites some colour and life. Here are all the themes carried as part of the Moodle distribution, along with their authors:
- standard* and cordoroyblue, by Martin Dougiamas
- oceanblue, by Mitsuhiro Yoshida, http://mitstek.com
- brightretro, by Thomas Murdock, http://sand-paper.org
- garden, by Spiggy, http://phpgirl.com
Thanks to all of you who have
- donated via the Donations page,
- contributed to the bug tracker, and
- participated in the Moodle Community
Special thanks to those who have contributed substantial amounts of time to helping with Moodle code, including:
Petri Asikainen, Greg Barnett, Ray Kingdon, and Eloy Lafuente.
Also, thanks to those of you who have at some time contributed with constructive discussions, support and bits of code. This list is long and always changing, but some names include (in the order I added them):
Art Lader, Matt Hope, Tom Murdock, Sébastien Namèche, James Miller, Dustin Rue, Holger Schadeck, Giovanni Tummarello, John Windmueller, Sean Keogh, Mitsuhiro Yoshida, Mark Kimes, Mary Hunter, Przemyslaw Stencel, Roberto Pinna (Bobo), John Eyre, Paula Edmiston, Scott Elliott, Howard Miller, Claudio Tavares
I apologise if I've forgotten to include your name here - it's very difficult to maintain! Mail me (Martin) and demand to have this page fixed! :-)
Some of Moodle's libraries were written by other people, and are being redistributed as part of Moodle under the LGPL. My thanks go out to the authors of all these excellent products - without them Moodle would be missing important functionality. Copyright information for each package is included below:
ADOdb - lib/adodb
Database abstraction library for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Oracle, Interbase, Foxpro, Access, ADO, Sybase, DB2 and ODBC.
Version: 2.50
Copyright © 2000, 2001 John Lim (jlim@natsoft.com.my)
License: Dual LGPL and BSD-style
URL: http://php.weblogs.com/adodb
Graph Class - lib/graphlib.php
Class to draw line, point, bar, and area graphs, including numeric x-axis and double y-axis.
Version: 1.6.3 (with modifications)
Copyright © 2000 Herman Veluwenkamp, hermanV@mindless.com
License: LGPL
IP-Atlas - lib/ipatlas
PHP scripts to show the location of an IP address on a map.
Version: 1.0 (with modifications)
Copyright © 2002 Ivan Kozik
License: GNU GPL
URL: http://www.xpenguin.com/ip-atlas.php
PclZip - lib/pclzip
Class to create, manage and unpack zip files.
Version: 1.3
Copyright © 2003 Vincent Blavet <vincent@phpconcept.net>
License: GNU GPL
URL: http://www.phpconcept.net
PHP mailer - lib/class.phpmailer.php
Class for sending email using either sendmail, PHP mail(), or SMTP. Methods are based upon the standard AspEmail(tm) classes.
Version 1.60, Created 03/30/2002
Copyright © 2001 Brent R. Matzelle <bmatzelle@yahoo.com>
License: LGPL
URL: http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net
PHP Simple Excel File Generator - lib/psxlsgen.php
Class to generate very simple MS Excel files (xls) via PHP.
Version: 0.3b
Copyright © 2001 Erol Ozcan <eozcan@superonline.com>
License: GNU LGPL
URL: http://psxlsgen.sourceforge.net
Richtext Editor - lib/rte
HTML text editor for embedding in web pages.
Version: 0.30 beta 1 (plus modifications)
Copyright © 2001 Ramesys (Contracting Services) Limited <Austin.France@Ramesys.com> License: GNU LGPL
URL: http://richtext.sourceforge.net
SMTP class - lib/class.smtp.php
Class that can be used to connect and communicate with any SMTP server.
It implements all the SMTP functions defined in RFC821 except TURN.
Version: 03/26/2001
Copyright © 2001 Chris Ryan <chris@greatbridge.com>
Version: $Id$