Quoting IT: Open Source, the GPL, and Joomla!

Submitted by Bryan on August 9, 2007 - 12:03pm

"It is fair to say the GPL does not intend to make it easy for proprietary software.The intention is to liberate code and ensure continual downstream benefits to users. So, yes, it's going to be easier to integrate open source code into a GPL'ed environment. And, as it should be!

It is important that community environments also ensure that open source developers benefit more than proprietary developers. It hasn't been that way in J! [Joomla!] or in Mambo."

 --Amy Stephen, OpenSourceCommunity.org, Comment to CMS Report's Is bridging a GPL application with a non-GPL application legal?

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And, there it is!

Submitted by AmyStephen on August 9, 2007 - 6:24pm.

That'll keep my dance card filled with the proprietary developer crowd! ;-)

But, it's the truth. Joomla! is an open source project - developed freely by open source developers - supported by volunteer efforts - we need to support our open source developers; third party and core.

I certainly do stand by those statements and the direction Joomla! is heading. :-)

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