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About Known

A collaborative social publishing platform.

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More about Known

Known: a social group platform

Known - A social group platform

Installation

One-click Known sites

If you want to install on your own web space, we recommend Reclaim Hosting, which includes one-click Known installation. Known is also known to work on DreamHost, a high-quality web hosting provider.

Installing

Known is under active development and requires PHP 8.1+ with selected extensions, together with a supported database backend. You can find detailed installation instructions here: http://docs.withknown.com/en/latest/install/index.html

Installing from packages

Unofficial install packages, which are periodically built from the latest code, are available: https://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/known/

Installing from Github

You can opt to check out the work-in-progress development code from the git repository: https://github.com/idno/known

Check out the repo: git clone https://github.com/idno/known.git
Fetch dependencies: cd known; composer install

Installing with composer

You can install Known directly from composer using: composer create-project idno/known

Optionally, you can install the latest bleeding edge code the same way: composer create-project idno/known -s dev

Support us

If you find this project useful, and you really want to support us, you can now fund us on OpenCollective.

Get support

Try the open source mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/known-dev

Community links

Learn more and sign up to get updates: https://withknown.com
Full project documentation: http://docs.withknown.com/
Join the development mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/known-dev
Join the IRC channel: #knownchat on Freenode

For details on contributing to the Known project, please read CONTRIBUTING.md.

Contributors

This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute. [Contribute].

Backers

Thank you to all our backers! 🙏 [Become a backer]

Copyright and License

Except for included third-party projects, Known is (c) Known, Inc.

Unless otherwise stated, Known is licensed under the Apache Software License 2.0. See LICENSE for more information.

Known logos are (c) Known, Inc. Permission from Known, Inc is required to use the Known name or logo as part of any project, product, service, domain or company name, except as included in official themes distributed by Known.

Third party libraries are licensed separately.

Known also contains

Twitter Bootstrap, which is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Source: https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap
jQuery, which is distributed under the MIT License. Source: https://github.com/jquery/jquery
Portions of Symfony, which is distributed under the MIT license.
EventDispatcher. Source: https://github.com/symfony/EventDispatcher
HttpFoundation. Source: https://github.com/symfony/HttpFoundation
Console. Source: https://github.com/symfony/console
ToroPHP, which is distributed under the MIT License. Source: https://github.com/anandkunal/ToroPHP/
Fork Awesome, which is distributed under the Open Font License, version 1.1: https://github.com/ForkAwesome/Fork-Awesome
Steve Clay's AutoP, which is distributed under the MIT License. Source: https://code.google.com/p/mrclay/
Aaron Parecki's Webmention Client, which is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Source: https://github.com/aaronpk/mention-client
Barnaby Walters's Microformats 2 Parser, which is distributed under the MIT License. Source: https://github.com/indieweb/php-mf2
FitVids.js, which is distributed under the WTFPL License. Source: http://fitvidsjs.com/
Leaflet.js, which is distributed under the BSD 2-Clause License. Source: http://leafletjs.com/
SwiftMailer, which is distributed under the MIT License. Source: https://github.com/swiftmailer/swiftmailer
Antwort, an email template which is distributed under the MIT License. Source: https://github.com/internations/antwort
Mention.js, a Bootstrap user at-mention library, which is distributed under the MIT License. Source: https://github.com/jakiestfu/Mention.js
MediaElement.js, a cross-browser media player, which is distributed under the MIT License. Source: https://github.com/johndyer/mediaelement
Simplepie, a feed parser, which is distributed under the BSD 3-Clause License. Source: https://github.com/simplepie/simplepie/
Bootstrap Toggle, which is distributed under the MIT License. Source: http://www.bootstraptoggle.com/
TinyMCE, a rich text editor, which is distributed under the LGPL License. Source: https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce
The Paypal Bootstrap Accessibility Plugin, which is distributed under the BSD 3-Clause License. Source: https://github.com/paypal/bootstrap-accessibility-plugin
HTMLPurifier, which is distributed under the LGPL License. Source: http://htmlpurifier.org
Wavesurfer, which is distrubuted under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Source: https://github.com/katspaugh/wavesurfer.js
MongoDB-PHP-Library, which is distributed under the Apache 2 Licence. Source: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-php-library
Exif-js, which is distributed under the MIT Licence. Source: https://github.com/exif-js/exif-js
PHP-OGP, distributed under the GPL2 Licence. Source: https://github.com/mapkyca/php-ogp