Quoth Anil Dash:
As of today, and forever forward, Movable Type is open source. This means you can freely modify, redistribute, and use Movable Type for any purpose you choose.
So what’s the scoop on what MT Open Source is vs. the commercial MT4?
A few quick answers to questions you might have about MTOS:
- MTOS has every feature in Movable Type 4.0 along with several new minor improvements and bug fixes.
- All plugins, themes, templates, designs, and APIs that work with MT4 work with MTOS. MTOS also works with other Six Apart open source technologies such as memcached.
- MTOS is one of the only open source blogging tools with built-in support for an unlimited number of blogs, an unlimited number of authors, and sign-in with OpenID, with no plugins needed.
- We’ll be adding additional paid benefits for people who’ve paid for commercial licenses for Movable Type, with benefits like improved technical support and custom add-ons such as plugins or themes.
- MTOS is complemented by the paid software products we sell on top of the MT platform, such as our Enterprise Solution, Community Solution and personal and commercial licenses which include support.
- There’s a public Subversion repository for getting the MTOS code and nightly builds.
- Once there are stable public builds, those downloads will be on movabletype.org as well.
- You can find out how to contribute to the MTOS project and the MT community at movabletype.org.
- MTOS support is provided by other members of the community. (A great place to start is the new Movable Type Wiki.) You can buy a standard paid license for one of the existing Movable Type products if you’d like professional support directly from Six Apart.
- Movable Type Open Source is being released under the standard GPL license.
- We welcome and encourage the distribution and reuse of all or part of MTOS in other open source projects. Get in touch if you want to work together.
Be sure to check out the full MTOS details for more details on how MTOS works, a list of Frequently Asked Questions, and information about how you can contribute.
I’ll have to do a bit of reading there — as well as figure out when the heck to do the jump to MT4/MTOS/whichever. Hmmmm. Maybe over the holidays? Yeah, trying to code jockey while out in Faerie sounds like a swell idea … not.
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