Moodle the package is Copyright © 2001-2003, Martin Dougiamas. It is distributed under the GNU Public License.
Special thanks
Associate Professor Peter C. Taylor, at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Australia, for working with the earliest prototypes and making many useful suggestions along the way
Translations
Many thanks to every person who has contributed to translating Moodle into different languages. Each translation takes many hours of work, as there are over 1000 phrases to translate (plus all the help files!). Many of the languages have more than one contributor, sometimes working together and sometimes they've taken over the work from a previous person.
Maintaining a list of everyone here is too difficult. For the most up-to-date information see the Language download page.
Themes
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
Other contributors
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, Ray Kingdon, Eloy Lafuente (stronk7), Henrik Kaipe, Williams Castillo, Russell Jungwirth.
Also, thanks to those of you who have at some time contributed with constructive discussions, support, testing 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, Greg Barnett, Mark Kimes, Mary Hunter, Przemyslaw Stencel, Roberto Pinna (Bobo), John "Captain" Eyre, Paula Edmiston, Scott Elliott, Howard Miller, Claudio Tavares, Zbigniew Fiedorowicz, P. Timothy Ervin, Bob Calder, Ursula Raab, Thomas Robb, David Delgado, Mad Alex, Gustav Delius.
I apologise if I've forgotten to include your name here - it's very difficult to maintain! Mail me (Martin) and gently remind me! :-)
Moodle libraries
Some of Moodle's libraries were written by other people, and are being redistributed as part of Moodle under their respective open source licenses that thankfully allow us to do so. 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: 3.60
Copyright © 2000-2003 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
html2text - lib/html2text.php
PHP script to convert HTML into an approximate text equivalent
Version: 1.0 (with modifications)
Copyright © 2002 Mark Wilton-Jones
License: HowToCreate script license with written permission
URL: http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/php/
htmlArea - lib/editor
Javascript/HTML script to put a GUI editor in textareas on Internet Explorer and Mozilla
Version: 3.0 beta (with modifications)
Copyright © 2002 interactivetools.com, inc.
License: htmlArea License (based on BSD license)
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: 2.0 RC2
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 1.71,
Copyright © 2003 Brent R. Matzelle <bmatzelle@yahoo.com>
License: LGPL
URL: http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net
Snoopy - lib/snoopy
A PHP net client
Version: 1.0
Copyright © 1999-2000 Monte Ohrt <monte@ispi.net>
License: GNU LGPL
URL: http://snoopy.sourceforge.com
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel - lib/excel
A library for generating Excel Spreadsheets.
Version: 2002-11-28
Copyright © 2002 Xavier Noguer <xnoguer@rezebra.com>
License: GNU LGPL
URL: http://jeffn.users.phpclasses.org/browse.html/package/767.html
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: $Id$