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Stallman Sends Dvorak the GPL Rulebook

Posted on Nov 20, 2007
Tagged in GPL

Normally this blog is full of pretty boring stuff. Like how to How to get People to Read More of your Joomla site or Template Names, Paths and Base URL for 1.5 Joomla Templates. The point is I rarely go off topic..

My buddy Mitch posted about a funny letter that Steve Jobs posted where Richard Stallman educates Dvorak about the GPL.


Just another Blog Post by Louis Landry

Posted on Jul 16, 2007
Tagged in joomla.orgGPL

Louis Landry

Over the weekend I was surprised to see a very public blog post about me at Joomla.org by Louis Landry regarding an email I sent to somebody.


Fighting the Stupids-Joomla SMF bridge no longer available

Posted on Jul 11, 2007
Tagged in GPL

Last week Louis Landry of the Joomla project made an interesting post on the dev blog called Fighting the Stupids.

I thought I would pick up on his theme and highlight a recent discussion that has been developing with regards to the core team/s recent stricter interpretation of the GPL and the hugely popular forum used in Joomla websites, the Simple Machines Forum (SMF)


Joomla GPL Issue Continues

Posted on Jul 03, 2007
Tagged in JCDGPL

Here at Compass, I have been doing my best to keep up to date with the decision of the Joomla core team to make a strict interpretation of Joomla's license under the GPL.

There have been a few interesting developments over the last few weeks that I thought might be worth sharing.


The GPL license debate at Joomla still going after 45 days

Posted on Jun 12, 2007
Tagged in JCDGPL

The GPL discussion at the joomla.org forums is still raging on, the thread has now become the most posted to thread in existence and its only a month and a half old!

The debate has expanded from the license into the business models of the the 3rd party developer community.

"Due to the uncertainty of their futures many developers have paused further development of software for Joomla 1.5" www.jcd-a.org

What does this mean for 1.5?


Can Joomla! extensions be released under non-GPL compatible licenses?

Posted on Apr 26, 2007
Tagged in GPLextensions

A few Joomla bloggers have quickly noted a fascinating thread currently underway on the forums at joomla.org.

Essentially, the license [of the development build] has been changed for Joomla 1.5. There is significant potential for the change to greatly change professional development of 3rd party extensions. Will this mean that the healthy commercial community around Joomla will begin to look elsewhere?


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