Known: a social group platform

Installation

One-click Known sites

A fully-managed hosted service is provided at https://withknown.com/. It is always kept up to date with the latest version of Known.

If you want to install on your own web space, we recommend Reclaim Hosting, which includes one-click Known installation.

Installing

Known is under active development and requires PHP 5.4+ with selected extensions, together with a supported database backend.

If you are installing Known for use on your own website, we HIGHLY recommend using the installable packages from https://withknown.com/opensource. Installation will be much easier!

You can also opt to check out the bleeding edge code from the git repository: https://github.com/idno/Known

Detailed installation instructions: http://docs.withknown.com/en/latest/install/index.html

Support us

• Star us on GitHub
• Like us on alternativeto.net
• Contribute

Get support

• Try the open source mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/known-dev
• Commercial support is available: https://withknown.com/services

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 CONTRIBUTORS.md.

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.

Logos of external services are (c) their respective owners. All rights reserved.

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.
  • ClassLoader. Source: https://github.com/symfony/ClassLoader
  • EventDispatcher. Source: https://github.com/symfony/EventDispatcher
  • HttpFoundation. Source: https://github.com/symfony/HttpFoundation
• ToroPHP, which is distributed under the MIT License. Source: https://github.com/anandkunal/ToroPHP/
• Anthony Ferrara's PHP 5.5 password API shim, which is distributed under the MIT license. Source: https://github.com/ircmaxell/password_compat
• Font Awesome, which is distributed under the Open Font License, version 1.1: http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/
• Fontello, which is distributed under the MIT License, for generating open source webfont. Source: https://github.com/fontello/fontello
• 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
• Webignition URL libraries, which are distributed under the MIT license.
  • Absolute URL deriver. Source: https://github.com/webignition/absolute-url-deriver
  • URL. Source: https://github.com/webignition/url
• 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/
• H5f HTML5 Form shim, which is distributed under the MIT License. Source: https://github.com/ryanseddon/H5F
• 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