____/ spike1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on Thursday 05 July 2007 09:54 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
>> Joomla! - the licence stays the same
>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Christopher Justice says: "...we haven't changed the license and we
>> | have no plans to. We have raised the visibility of the GPL and we're
>> | encouraging a better understanding of the GPL. It is our view that
>> | extensions are derivative works and therefore we encourage all
>> | extensions to be GPL compliant. The Joomla! community has grown to
>> | over 110,000 members with the same license and a huge community of
>> | commercial and non-commercial developers. There are some non-GPL
>> | compliant extensions but the majority of the extensions available
>> | are GPL. As the project continues to grow, we'll focus more on GPL
>> | extensions to build a stronger and more open project and community."
>> `----
>
>>
http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13303&Itemid=1091
>
>> This was not posted to COLA, but some Luddites complained because they
>> wanted to shove blobs or restricted software into Joomla.
>
> Maybe you should've added some of your own words to the summary...
> Perhaps explaining what the hell Joomla was in the first place.
Roots in Mambo server, so it probably runs millions of sites just like Drupal
and WordPress (Geeklog and Plone are popular as well). I notice that the
article has just been corrected/pulled for a (bizarre) reason...
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