Posts Tagged ‘free’
Open or Closed, Part II: License and Free(dom)
I found another portion of the open or closed question. What about open and closed software licenses? Here’s a quick rundown of the license categories (check here for more details): GNU GPL type licenses. Very open. Liberal Licenses (i.e. Creative Commons type, Mozilla Public License). Mostly open. Closed source (i.e. proprietary license). Closed. The more [...]
Notice for WordPress Theme and Plugin Developers
Just wanted to pass some info along to all of you budding theme developers. Your themes need to be licensed under GPL. Well, okay, part of them. According to this article from WordPress the php and html in your themes are GPL because WordPress itself is under the GPL. However, the css files and any [...]
The Future of Music and the Flat Rate
This topic has been around for a while now. We talked about this very problem in a music business class I took in college (only a few years ago, but for digital things, that’s a while). Is the music “flat rate” the answer for the music industry? I say no. Here’s why. The flat rate [...]