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It seems that some major news outlets are talking about Joomla's recent licensing change, among the big boys were Wired (Joomla Sticks With the GPL), CMS Watch (Joomla! CMS faces a governance challenge) and Linux.com (GPL compliance issues are tearing Joomla! apart). Interestingly it seems some inaccuracies were creeping to their stories, showing just how complex this subject is.

There is also a petition that has been started. 

You can find the petition at:

www.gopetition.com/petitions/keep-freedom-of-choice-for-joomla.html

We, the undersigned, wish to express our concern with the Joomla Core Team's decision to force third party developers to reliance their extensions to the GPL.

The current mixture of GPL and commercial development has helped to grow Joomla to be the world's leading Content Management System, for over 100,000 users. The new direction on strict GPL licensing threatens this ecosystem.

We therefore ask that the new GPL only policy is withdrawn, and that Joomla reinstates its previous policy to allow a mixture of GPL and commercial third party software.

If you share that viewpoint, you should head on over and leave you signature...