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  1. Open source licenses come in 3 flavors. by jaaron · · Score: 5, Insightful · on Google Reverses "Absurd" Mozilla Code Ban

    The MPL and the GPL are very different. The MPL is closer to the LGPL and the EPL than it is to the GPL

    One of the easiest ways to think of it was give by Dave Johnson back in 2006. You can place most open source licenses into one of three categories:

    • Gimme Credit: this includes the Apache, BSD and MIT licenses. Basically, you can do anything you want with the code, but you must give the original authors credit in some way.
    • Gimme Fixes: is used by the EPL, MPL, and LGPL. Basically, the original code will always be open source and any direct changes of the original code (patches, bug fixes, enhancements) must also be released as open source. However, you can combine this software with closed code to create a proprietary work. This license tends to be used by frameworks and libraries. Sometimes the original author gets special rights (like the NPL).
    • Gimme everything!: the GPL stands alone in it's requirement that the code itself and all derivative works be free software.

    Hope that helps.

  2. Re:Complaining about the options by jrumney · · Score: 1 · on Blog Software Smackdown

    Roller works well with PostgreSQL, and includes scripts for initializing the databases on MySQL, PostgreSQL and HSQLDB. It is a Java web app, so once the database is initialized, any database with decent JDBC drivers should work equally well. IIRC from the mailing lists, there are even some users using Oracle and MS SQL Server.

  3. Re:What about roller? by gludington · · Score: 1 · on Blog Software Smackdown

    I've had my eye on Roller for a long time (I think it is bundled with mac osx too). Is anyone using this? http://www.rollerweblogger.org/
    MacOSX comes with a java-based blogging system, but it is not roller, but blojsom. Blojsom itself was inspired by the perl/CGI blosxom.
  4. What about roller? by puppetluva · · Score: 1 · on Blog Software Smackdown

    I've had my eye on Roller for a long time (I think it is bundled with mac osx too). Is anyone using this?
    http://www.rollerweblogger.org/

    It took about 5 minutes for me to set up, but I never really got into the blog rythym.

    Do the heavy-duty bloggers out there like it?

  5. Other Free/Open Java blogging software and sites by MCRocker · · Score: 2, Informative · on Weblog System Features Compared
    They are missing SnipSnap, an fantastically easy to install java GPLd blog/wiki server. Try it out at snipsnap.org.


    While you're plugging Java based blogging software, don't forget the Roller Weblogger, which runs JRoller and, since the article includes blosxom, people should also be aware of blojsom, which is a Java based clone of blosxom. Naturally, there are others out there too.

    P.S. Since the original post didn't provide a direct link, here's one for the home page of SnipSnap.
  6. Re:Why? by wglass · · Score: 3, Informative · on Velocity 1.4 Released

    A big advantage of Velocity is that it combines a flexible templating language with ease of integration into existing applications and frameworks. Because of this, a lot of java-based web frameworks include Velocity support. Struts, WebWork, Turbine, Maverick, Spring, to name a few. Using Velocity it's also possible to roll your own web markup language with Velocity as a base, as the folks on the Roller team have done.

    In addition, Velocity is more than just a web scripting language. (as opposed to JSP which is almost exclusively that). Besides using it to create web pages in a webapp, I have made Velocity templates to assist my applications in sending email and have made templates to auto-generate code to help with my object/relational mapping. There's also a translation to C# called NVelocity.

  7. Roller by joib · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Which Weblogs Are Best Suited for User Group Use?

    If you prefer java to php/perl there is Roller, made with open source java stuff (mostly jakarta). It has become quite popular in the java community.