Posts Tagged ‘open’
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 [...]
Open or Closed: Experiencing (Social) Technology
Open. Or Closed. This has become a big question for web technology. Opening up your source or API to the public can reap huge dividends. Just look at Twitter and all the news and apps and traffic it has. (It also has great content, but let’s have that as a given.) Closing your source or [...]