{"id":12011,"date":"2007-12-13T13:44:07","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T20:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/12\/13\/open-source-movable-type.html"},"modified":"2007-12-13T13:44:07","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T20:44:07","slug":"open_source_movable_type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/13\/open_source_movable_type.html","title":{"rendered":"Open Source Movable Type"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quoth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.org\/2007\/12\/movable_type_open_source.html\" target=\"_blank\">Anil Dash<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As of today, and forever forward, <strong>Movable Type is open source<\/strong>. This means you can freely modify, redistribute, and use Movable Type for any purpose you choose.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So what&#8217;s the scoop on what MT Open Source is vs. the commercial MT4?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A few quick answers to questions you might have about MTOS:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0px 20px 20pt\" height=\"60\" alt=\"mt4-bug-mt-white.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.org\/mt4-bug-mt-white.png\" width=\"120\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> MTOS has <b>every feature in Movable Type 4.0<\/b> along with several new minor improvements and bug fixes.<\/li>\n<li> All <a href=\"http:\/\/plugins.movabletype.org\/\">plugins<\/a>, themes, templates, designs, and APIs that work with MT4 work with MTOS. MTOS also works with other Six Apart open source technologies such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danga.com\/memcached\/\">memcached<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li> 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.<\/li>\n<li> We&#8217;ll be adding <strong>additional paid benefits<\/strong> for people who&#8217;ve paid for commercial licenses for Movable Type, with benefits like improved technical support and custom add-ons such as plugins or themes.<\/li>\n<li> MTOS is complemented by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.com\/products\/\">paid software products<\/a> we sell on top of the MT platform, such as our Enterprise Solution, Community Solution and personal and commercial licenses which include support.<\/li>\n<li> There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/movabletype.org\/opensource\/getting-the-source.html\">public Subversion repository<\/a> for getting the MTOS code and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.org\/opensource\/nightlies\/\">nightly builds<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li> Once there are stable public builds, those downloads will be on movabletype.org as well.<\/li>\n<li> You can find out how to contribute to the MTOS project and the MT community at movabletype.org.<\/li>\n<li> MTOS support is provided by other members of the community. (A great place to start is the <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.movabletype.org\/\">new Movable Type Wik<\/a>i.) You can buy a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.com\/download\/\">standard paid license<\/a> for one of the existing Movable Type products if you&#8217;d like professional support directly from Six Apart.<\/li>\n<li> Movable Type Open Source is being released under the standard GPL license.<\/li>\n<li> 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Be sure to <a href=\"http:\/\/movabletype.org\/mtos\/\">check out the full MTOS details<\/a> for more details on how MTOS works, a list of Frequently Asked Questions, and information about how you can contribute.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have to do a bit of reading there &#8212; as well as figure out when the heck to do the jump to MT4\/MTOS\/whichever.&nbsp; Hmmmm.&nbsp; Maybe over the holidays?&nbsp; Yeah, trying to code jockey while out in Faerie sounds like&nbsp;a swell idea &#8230; not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11938,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/27\/so_the_movable_type_quest.html","url_meta":{"origin":12011,"position":0},"title":"So the Movable Type question of the day is &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 27-Dec-07 11:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"Do I go the commercial route with MT4, or the Open Source route with MTOS? MT4 is already beta-testing 4.1, so there seems to be some ongoing momentum from 6A...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging &amp; Internet&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging &amp; Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10869,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/08\/mt4.html","url_meta":{"origin":12011,"position":1},"title":"MT4","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 8-Jun-07 5:59pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Wow, I go off on a little business trip and miss all the foofoorah over Movable Type 4.\u00a0 Aside from being what sounds like a big rewrite with lots...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging &amp; Internet&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging &amp; Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/mt4.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11369,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/11\/mt_v_ee.html","url_meta":{"origin":12011,"position":2},"title":"MT v. EE","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 11-Sep-07 1:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Les, a very nice comparison between Movable Type 4 and ExpressionEngine 1.6.\u00a0 I didn't see anything in there that made me want to switch from MT, but it would...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging &amp; Internet&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging &amp; Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11489,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/15\/mt4_ahoy.html","url_meta":{"origin":12011,"position":3},"title":"MT4 Ahoy!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 15-Aug-07 6:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"SixApart has released Movable Type 4.0, and folks seem to be pretty enthusiastic about what it finally brings to the table. For myself, I don't expect I'll be hopping...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging &amp; Internet&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging &amp; Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11942,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/27\/back_on_the_spam_front_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":12011,"position":4},"title":"Back on the Spam front &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 27-Dec-07 8:07am","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been working with the Hosting Matters folks to get FastCGI up and running on the server I'm on.\u00a0 The biggest problem (from a spam perspective) that Movable Type...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging &amp; Internet&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging &amp; Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"spam","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/spam.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11241,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/14\/movable_type_and_flickr.html","url_meta":{"origin":12011,"position":5},"title":"Movable Type and Flickr","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 14-Oct-07 7:46pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So a couple of months ago, I was having problems with Flickr,and it's \"e-mail-to-blog\" functionality.\u00a0 No matter what I tried, it threw back and error when I tried to post...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging &amp; Internet&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging &amp; Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}