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Whose Joomla is it anyway?
compassdesigns.net — The core team of Joomla has finally (after 2 months of high tension discussion) issued a statement about a change in the license of Joomla. I have been keeping my posts relatively neutral, encouraging people to express an opinion, but I have had several people ask me for my take on all this, and what I think the consequences will be. So here go.
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- jgcracknell, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0They say the truth is out there! This is it!
- troydoogle7, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1 I didn;t qute understand the whole matter before, and why it was so important... This realy made it clear.... Great article
- joomlajabber, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Good article.
- shinon, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1That pretty much sums it up.
- pdaniel, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Clean and simple explanation of the facts :)
- naughtydigger, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Thorough view of a complex situation by a professional insider, which summarizes it very well. The graph says it a lot about the shift in potential ! Good catch and read !
- ijoomla, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Excellent!
- woodspath, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0It is a sad day for the Joomla! community when it turned its back on what made it an exciting community and a great piece of software to use.
- woodspath, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0It is a sad day for the Joomla community. It was the diversity of the people and the resources that were available to use that made it exciting to build sites using the Joomla ecosystem.
- LynneP, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Little bit of clarification here - Joomla! did not change its license. The license has always been GPL. What it changed was the official interpretation of the license. From mid-August 2005, when Joomla started out, until recent weeks there has always been a public acknowledgement that 3rd party developers were free to chose their own license as long as their extensions did not breach the Joomla copyright. That was initially published in several places as a Licensing Guidelines and Licensing FAQ and can still be seen on the Net today (just not on official Joomla sites). Then came the rider in the source files license. It was these things that were changed, not the General Public License itself.
Of course, Joomla may change its license soon anyway, once GPL version 3 is released. GPL3 is incompatible with GPL2 so the 3PD's, whether commercial or not, will be embroiled in yet another debate before long if Joomla continues to make significant decisions without consulting the community. The title of your post is very appropriate Barrie. - naughtydigger, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Very good comment. I can't imagine the energies, enthusiasms and time lost away from core team, developers and third party developers there. What a loss, what a shame. It's the first day of the decline of Joomla ! Joomla needs firemen and forewomen. Fast. Very fast.
- kdbaumann, on 05/29/2008, -0/+0This link is now dead. In their move from 1.0.15 to 1.5 Joomla, they lost the page apparently...
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