Joomla! - Open Source Does Matter

joomla.org — Joomla! is moving to ensure the future of the project by committing to compliance with the GNU/GPL licence. This decision reflects a lengthy introspection combined with legal considerations to properly secure the project in the spirit of Open Source. For us, for everyone, Open Source does matter. Jun 14, 2007 View in Crawl 4

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heythisismyname Jun 15, 2007

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ahhhhhhhhhhhhh theeze web twopointOh naymez R dryvng me crazE

crgnetworks Jun 20, 2007

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@slythfoxIf you even attempt to include PHPNuke, you're clueless.

ashfire908 Jun 21, 2007

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@HootyeaIf you think they are so alike, go check the Joomla! 1.5 code. There are a lot of changes in it. (Goes back to waiting for the 1.5 release and developer documentation)

sobolwolf Jun 22, 2007

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Yeah right Joomla - I am one of those so called "monsters" that sells commercial add-ons for Joomla - and I can tell you it is the commercial designers that make the good s**t - the gpl designers just copy the ideas and make a half assed effort. Once you lose the commercial devs, you lose the cool add-ons. So keep waving your prissy little "open source matters flag" as your ship goes down. If you don't believe me look what happened to Postnuke when they ditched their commercial devs, no you are lucky to see a modules released in a month, before this they came thick and fast just like Joomla. Postnuke even did a flip flop on the policy as a last ditch effort to win back some devs, didn't seem to work...Joomla HA! - . I have worked with 1.x and 1.5 - both of them are not really up to scratch IMHO, the code is a nightmare to work with, overly complicated to create add-ons anyway. They think 1.5 is cool cause it has some extended objects and a 3rd class template engine, whoopy s**t.I am glad this happened anyway - I am about to release a CMS of my own, one that will be encoded with ioncube but free (no one's gonna fork my s**t like what happened with mambo - it's almost like stealing) it will also be extremely friendly for 3rd party developers AND easy for them to encode / DRM their products. Lets see in a year who's got the extensions.THANKS JOOMLA! YOUR LOSS BECOMES MY GAIN HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!PS to all you freeloading fanboys of GPL - I look forward to putting your money in my pockets.

tnt4 Jun 30, 2007

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As one who has listened in person to Richard Stallman and his GPL flock, you have to know that going with the GPL is often more of a religious then a business decision unless there is the ability to also release a non-GPL licensed version. Look at MySQL. Those boys have done it right. They get the full backing of commercial vendors like SAP and Oracle, plus they get the backing of many in the GPL camp. Going pure GPL will limit where I can use Joomla. I can no longer recommend it for use in my commercial endeavors and will have to back other projects like MySQL that allow me to use it for both my personal GPL projects and my commercial software development where a corporation owns the source.

jkantor Jul 14, 2007

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Open Source works because it guarantees a space where capitalism (in the form of for-profit extensions, front-ends, packaging, distribution, etc.) can flourish.