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On June 14th 2007, the J! Core team announced its intent to move towards a greater compliance to the GPL. Many things were part of this process, including such things as joomla.org itself moving away from non-GPL extension use.

"No lawsuits, no pogroms, no martyrs. More to the point, no shouting, no demonisation, and no drawing lines between "us" and "them".  It's a big community with many kinds of developers, and we want solutions that will work for everybody."

Over 18 months later, a flurry of policy decisions that will have further ramifications in the Joomla Joomla community.

Here is (hopefully) an objective round up of the recent policy announcements:

On February 19-21, 2008 this conference is an opportunity for developers of extensions for the Mambo family of products, Mambo, Joomla Joomla, Elxis, to meet each other and share ideas. It is an ideal opportunity for you to explain your API, deliver your roadmap and to discuss extension development, design, and structure with fellow developers.

Here at Compass, I have been doing my best to keep up to date with the decision of the Joomla 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 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 Joomla 1.5" www.jcd-a.org

What does this mean for 1.5?