Movable Type Goes Open Source

jamie forwarded a link to the announcement that Movable Type has been released as open source under the GPLv2. Here's the FAQ. Given that Wordpress, textpattern, and many others have been open source for years, how big a splash will Six Apart's announcement make?

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Re:MTOS vs MT

[Ford Prefect]

All that really means is a license change and, well, in the meantime, didn't everybody already kinda move to WordPress anyhow?

Surely if you're a real nerd, you've written your very own blogging software from scratch?

I wrote the, erm, fantastically named BaaBaa-BlogSheep(tm), which is currently powering my game modification blog and, in a stunning 100% increase in number of deployments, now a general Half-Life 2 map news blog too.

It's based on PHP, MySQL and Smarty - I initially wrote it as a test-bed for trying out different templating engines for PHP, before using the victor in subsequent, proper work. Smarty proved to be marginally less inelegant than some of the alternatives, so that's what subsequent versions have stuck with.

I originally designed it without having ever seen the admin side of WordPress, Movable Type or any other mainstream blog - an administration's view looks just like what the public sees, except with unpublished articles, more buttons and links available. It's remarkably streamlined.

Would there be any interest if I released the source for it? It's incredibly light on the dependencies (Smarty and PEAR's XML/RPC are the only oddities) and seems to work okay - plus I wouldn't mind if I got a few of the Missing Features written for me. Along with some of the uglier, hard-coded-in-templates nonsense removing. ;-)