On 2/22/07, Bobbi Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Those who were at the last boston.pm meeting may recall my asking if there > was some place where I could find out about various open-source > not-necessarily-perl-based blog/wiki/forum software. > > People kindly threw out some names of OS stuff they knew about. > > In the meantime, there must be something in the air, because someone on an > internal mailing list posted a query about OpenSource CMS's today, which > yielded a link to http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php This looks like > what I was asking for, so I thought I'd pass it on.
I went to the site and couldn't see anything without supplying a login. That's annoying. Googling about them, they seem to be GPLed, but I couldn't verify that. If they aren't GPLed then please be aware that there is a lot of software in this space that claims to be open source but whose claims are questionable. In particular they use licenses that have not been submitted to the OSI for approval, and which would probably fail to meet the open source definition if they did. The problem is that they insist on clauses mandating that there must be a specific logo displayed that links to a specific company. People object to this on a number of grounds. First of all, that it introduces a requirement for a specific technology in violation of OSD #10. (For instance it would be against the license to produce a command-line tool derived from their software.) Weaker objections have also been advanced on several other grounds, notably that putting this much pressure against commercial reuse is discriminating against specific fields of endeavour. For more on this, see http://linuxgazette.net/134/moen.html. If those limitations do not bother you, then go ahead and use the software. But don't call things open source unless they are. Cheers, Ben _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
