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Joomla GPL Issue Continues

July 3, 2007 By barrie@compassdesigns.net Leave a Comment

Resignations

There have been several popular projects that have shut down because of philosophical disagreement with the core team’s actions. These have included:

  • Clexus PMS – clexus.com
  • JBAM – jbam.joomlasolutions.com
  • OpenSEF – www.open-sef.org

Its also looking increasingly likely that Orsito’s SMF bridge will be discontinued.

There have also been some resignations from Joomla working groups. The last weeks have seen Websmurf, Predator, Vimes and fotisevangelou resign from the project. Forums regulars such as eyezberg have also made public statements about dissatisfaction and have moved on. With over 8,652 forum posts these are people that have worked hard for the project but have rejected the core’s recent re-interpretation of its license.

Controlling the Discussion

Speaking of forums, the Joomla core team have closed the long discussion thread about the GPL, and have instead created three fascinating boards in "The Lounge".

  • GPL Questions – User Related
  • GPL Questions – Developer Related
  • GPL – Your Opinion

What is fascinating about these boards is that while anyone can start a topic, only official Joomla "people" can reply. Its a really interesting case of control of information and "discussion". The usual scenario is that someone posts a concern and then half a dozen working group members "educate" them. Alternatively, someone posts a "great move Joomla" comment and the post is greeting with cheers of approval. I have to admit this is the first time on hundreds of forums I have seen over the years that I have seen such a tactic. Its been highly effective at silencing and controlling critics of the core’s decision.

The Joint Commercial Developers Association

The JCD was a loose group of 3rd party developers that had common ground after he core team’s re-interpretation of their license. They have since grown to over 110 members and the JCD also has a public forum. Its worth heading over there to see a different viewpoint of the discussion. I am fairly sure that anyone can join the thread discussions and make replies, not just "official members". The JCD seems serious about creating a mature and democratically governed organization for developers. They have released a public statement that has been signed by over 100 3rd party developers. The list read’s like a who’s who of developers and includes almost all of the top tier 3rd party developers such as Community Builder, iJoomla, Phil Taylor, Joomlaworks, Jomres, Elearningforce, DesignForJoomla, XHTMLSuite, Azrul, Joe LeBlanc, Netshine, Orsito, Run Digital, Saka, Predator, corePHP and Joomla-addons. To be honest, I can’t think of who hasn’t signed it!

I had a chance to chat with the spokesperson for JCD, Vince Wooll and he told me that they are actively trying to reach out to the core team and reach a compromise position that will be in the best interests of both parties. I certainly hope that the people involved will be able to put their pride aside momentarily and have true mediation. He also mentioned some non-GPL issues going on like developing a self-policing code of standards for developers, a team to investigate any alleged GPL abuse by members and examining code escrow for encrypted code.

The Joomla Blog World

Some more blog posts have appeared on this issue. One very interesting one I found was about Linux and Open Source. It really does show that this is less of a legal issue and more of an interpretation issue, one that is guided by philosophies and opinions. That to me seems the root of the problem here, people always think their opinion is right……

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Joomlashack Announces Joomla Survey Winners

June 30, 2007 By barrie@compassdesigns.net Leave a Comment


Head on over to the Shack and see if your name is there!

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Joomlashack Launches Shack 2.0

June 25, 2007 By barrie@compassdesigns.net Leave a Comment

Better support, more tutorials, a better cart and access to template
updates. Let me take you a brief tour of what we have waiting for you.

Where is Everything?

We have reorganized our site to make everything easier and quicker to find.

Main Menu Options

In Joomla Downloads
you will be able to find all of the templates, components, modules and
other stuff available at Joomlashack. You can get access to both free
and commercial downloads here.

In Support
you will find our brand new support system. Its a ticket based system
to make sure you get the best and fastest support possible and is part
of our new multi-layered support infrastructure. We are pushing the
envelope to bring you world class Joomla support.

In Customize
you will find another part of our support infrastructure. It’s our
community customization forum. With over 80,000 members is an active
community of Joomla users, as well as our own team, all trying to help
you customize and build a successful Joomla website.

In Learn,
you can find out everything you needed to know, and more, about using
Joomla. We have free tutorials and videos to help you learn how to
Joomla.

Team Blog is our own corner of the site where our team
talks about all things web and Joomla. Whether its tips or news, this
is the place to come to get up to date information about the Joomla
Universe.

 

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June 23, 2007 By barrie@compassdesigns.net Leave a Comment

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Joomla Petition is started

June 20, 2007 By barrie@compassdesigns.net Leave a Comment

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…

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