The advantage with projects like b2evolution, WordPress and probably a few more (but I haven't checked them out enough) is that there are many different contributors. This makes it very unlikely that all of them would ever agree to release a version x.0 under a new license. Thus it is vitually guaranteed that these projects will stay FREE as in GPL forever!:)
At the beginning there was a "classy blogtool" called b2.
When Michel V., the original author of b2, stopped development of his tool, two forks emerged simultaneously: b2evolution and WordPress.
This was in early 2003. For some reason, Michel V. later chose to endorse the WordPress fork as an "official" successor to his work.
Anyway, both forks have developped at approximately the same pace but with slighlty different orientations. b2evolution is merely moving towards a larger scale multilingual multiuser multiblog system, maybe even a full featured CMS, while WordPress is merely concentrating on adding sweetness to basic blogging, like image thumbnail generation, etc.
Having looked at the sourcecode, WordPress is closer to the original b2, while b2evolution has been significantly rewritten in a more object oriented way (as far as PHP 4 can be considered OO).
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The advantage with projects like b2evolution, WordPress and probably a few more (but I haven't checked them out enough) is that there are many different contributors. This makes it very unlikely that all of them would ever agree to release a version x.0 under a new license. Thus it is vitually guaranteed that these projects will stay FREE as in GPL forever! :)
At the beginning there was a "classy blogtool" called b2.
When Michel V., the original author of b2, stopped development of his tool, two forks emerged simultaneously: b2evolution and WordPress.
This was in early 2003. For some reason, Michel V. later chose to endorse the WordPress fork as an "official" successor to his work.
Anyway, both forks have developped at approximately the same pace but with slighlty different orientations. b2evolution is merely moving towards a larger scale multilingual multiuser multiblog system, maybe even a full featured CMS, while WordPress is merely concentrating on adding sweetness to basic blogging, like image thumbnail generation, etc.
Having looked at the sourcecode, WordPress is closer to the original b2, while b2evolution has been significantly rewritten in a more object oriented way (as far as PHP 4 can be considered OO).