From d755cbc9d0974fd6554236e5a7a772df6ad71cb0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nathan Kinkade <nath@nkinka.de>
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:36:42 +0000
Subject: Note in About page about licensing status

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 templates/about.tpl | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/templates/about.tpl b/templates/about.tpl
index 9b9cd30..0e14bc0 100644
--- a/templates/about.tpl
+++ b/templates/about.tpl
@@ -6,6 +6,19 @@
 
 			<h2 style='text-align: center;'>ABOUT</h2>
 
+			<div class='standardMargins'>
+				First, the software that runs this site is free.  It is released under an
+				<a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php>MIT (X11)</a>
+				license.  You can <a href="/download/">download</a> the source code and the
+				database, alter it, improve it or otherwise do whatever you like with it.  If you'd
+				like to help me improve nutridb.org, then feel free to send me patches or other
+				improvements.  If anyone is really interested, let me know and we can talk about
+				giving you Subversion commit privileges.  I'd like for nutridb.org to become a
+				collaborative, community effort.  This way the results of anyone's work will go to a
+				central place where everyone can benefit.  Feel free to contact me at nkinkade AT
+				gmail DOT com.
+			</div>
+
 			<div class='standardMargins'>
 				I began work on this database sometime around mid 2002.  It started out of a strong
 				interest in nutrition and a desire to explore <a href='http://php.net'> PHP</a>,
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