Movable Type 3 Licensing, Take 2
Published June 16, 2004
We hope you enjoy the added freedom this license offers you. Our new personal use licenses are designed to be easier to understand and to provide more flexibility.
New Personal Licenses:
* Limited Free Edition:
Unsupported with a limit of 1 author and 3 weblogs
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* Personal Edition ($69.95):
5 authors and unlimited weblogs
- This license was previously limited to 5 weblogs
* Unlimited Personal Edition ($99.95):
Unlimited authors and unlimited weblogs
- We previously did not have a personal license that allowed for unlimited users and weblogs
The Unlimited Personal Edition was created in response to the concerns of many Movable Type users who felt that limited weblogs and authors of the previous licenses just didn't meet their needs. After listening to their feedback we can't help but agree and have created this offer with them in mind.
As before, personal licenses remain for non-commercial use only and are not for educational institutions, not-for-profits (501.3c, houses of worship and other properly registered organizations), or revenue producing uses other than incidental revenue (mainly ad revenue) created on your blog. You can not offer to host weblogs for users other than family, friends and associates. The personal edition's permissions for incidental revenue do allow you to use services like Google AdSense, Amazon Associates or a PayPal tip jar on your site, as long as those are not the main purpose of your web site.
We've also improved our business licenses and have made our educational and not-for-profit licensing viewable on our website. As we hinted above, there is a new free not-for-profit license. If you are using Movable Type in a not-for-profit organization that has one or fewer paid employees and you do not want support you can use the free version within that organization for an unlimited number of users and blogs or you can get a supported license for $39. Once the site goes live later today you will be able to see these and more changes for yourself.
Once again, thanks so much for supporting Six Apart and for your continued use of Movable Type. The developer's release of 3.0 has been a great success and we expect to see great add-ons coming from that community. We also have some great stuff in store for future releases of the product. (Remember, all point upgrades 3.x are free to appropriately licensed users.)
Be sure to check out movabletype.org for more information about the license changes as well as updated FAQs and product information pages.
Originally posted at Breaking Windows.
Ken Edwards is the Gaming Editor at Blogcritics, and calls Breaking Windows home. Ken works part time for Student Publications at BGSU as the Webmaster and System Administrator. He is also a freelance web developer.
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I am VERY HAPPY with WordPress now that I have it working.
VERY HAPPY.
The thing here is that we have 460+ posters that are used to the current interface. If I replace it with something else, it needs to be easier to use than MT, if possible, not in the least bit harder. Techies like you, Ms Tek, have no problems anyway, but we've got a bunch of non-techies here, too. So I would have to hack the crud out of WordPress to avoid confusing people.
It would probably be easier just to write a new posting screen and leave the data structures alone. :-)
Pivot is going to have MySQL added in the near future according to the developer and that is (will be anyway) probably the closest fit to MT without all the licensing and commercial requirements.
And since Pivot is written entirely in PHP and not running as an inefficient Perl CGI process it should be superior to MT in terms of scalability. I hope Bob (the Pivot developer) uses cached pages and doesn't try to query the database on each page load like some of these blog programs do. That's very inefficient when programs operate that way.
Then again, if Phillip just continues with his idea of hacking the internal MT posting script then there will be little need to switch to anything else.
... and I am all for sending Phillip a case or two of Mt. Dew or Dr. Pepper ;)
Mt Dew? Dr Pepper? Dude, it's Pepsi or beer or nothing! ;-)
I'm going to be out of town next week, perhaps I'll return refreshed and energized and ready to rewrite the core of MT!
Sounds like Phillip really needs a case of Drew Carey's "Buzz Beer".
After I get the next two eps of the final season of the Drew Carey Show, I'll have to do a post about it.
BTW have you looked at Slashcode? Plastic.com makes rather good use of it.
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(Or ping: http://blogcritics.org/mt/tb/16571)
Of course, this does nothing to help Blogcritics, which would apparently now be required to pay an unknown amount in excess of $1300 to upgrade.
Since we've already completely tossed out the default MT comment mechanism because it was mind-bogglingly slow, I just don't see that happening. I'd sooner rewrite the item-posting mechanism. COme to think of it, I just might.