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  1. Re:The cost of bad names by philovivero · · Score: 1 · on Mambo Changes its Name to Joomla!

    "This name was chosen from thousands of recommendations by the community, and even went through an arduous review session by branding and marketing professionals who also felt that Joomla! was the best choice of the lot."

  2. Confusing License guidelines by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Mambo Changes its Name to Joomla!
    Their site has still a confusing license guidelines:
    http://www.joomla.org/content/view/5/6/
    Joomla is released under the GNU General Public license (GNU GPL).The GNU GPL provides for a person or persons to distribute Joomla for a fee, but not actually charging for the software itself, because Joomla is free. Joomla is free to share and change, but if you do change it in anyway, can you also change the license and make it commercial? No! The whole GPL is devoted to ensuring this does not happen. Copyright, a much more refined and stringent law will prevent this as well.

    So with regard to Joomla, the GPL and copyright:

    You MAY distribute it and charge for that service. You MAY change it, add design and content to it and you MAY charge for that. You may NOT alter the license and you must NOT alter the copyright. You do NOT have to show a 'Powered by Joomla' graphic, as it not a copyright notice.

    In other words, you must NOT pretend that Joomla is yours, and you must NOT charge people for Joomla.


    They misinterpret the GPL here: you may perfectly charge for the GPL code.