| Going to Mambo 4.6.x |
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Greetings everyone, We'd like to announce that as of August 2007, Baby Gekko will support Mambo 4.6.2 and above for its web design packages, website templates, extensions. There will be new extensions and templates, both commercial and free for Mambo. Further development of existing extensions for Joomla 1.0.12 will be supported until December 2007. We will also support existing clients whose sites were based on Joomla 1.0.x, and there will be a migration path to Mambo when it is necessary. We will not support Joomla 1.5 is due to licensing complication and lack of commercial quality extensions for our clients. Long story short, Joomla core team developers asked 3rd party proprietary extensions developers to change their license to be GPL compatible because they believe that any Joomla 3rd-party extensions are considered as derivative work. Joomla core team believes that any simple calls to Joomla core API is also considered as a derivative work. Discussion attempts have been going on for over 3 months and no agreements have been reached: http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,163492.0.html As an answer, Baby Gekko has joined JCD-A (Joint Commercial Developers Alliance). Our statement can be viewed here. You can view the list of other companies who signed it here. We believe that the co-existance of both proprietary/commercial and open-source extensions provide users more choices for their web need. For us, Joomla is no longer a suitable web design platform because of the lack of choices in terms of commercial quality extensions in future versions. The good news is: Mambo 4.6.2 is available. We chose Mambo 4.6.2 because it is already a step ahead of Joomla 1.0.12 with better database backup, WYSIWYG editor, and internationalization support. Many existing Joomla components, both commercial and free, work without needing any modifications. Moreover, Mambo was the original product until Joomla project came separated itself from Mambo. We believe that Mambo will be getting more and more 3rd-party products - both commercial and open source, and thus provide the best tool for the job for users. We assure our existing web design clients that we will support their existing clients. Users who use Joomla 1.0.12 do not need to upgrade.
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