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November 5th, 2009

Hrmm, one of my favorite HTML text editors, FCKEditor, got re-branded.

fckeditor-logo

It’s now known as CKEditor.

ckeditor

Wonder why they changed the name :) ?

On a side note, they have an impressive licensing scheme.

CKEditor is distributed under the GPL, LGPL and MPL open source licenses. This triple copyleft licensing model avoids incompatibility with other open source licenses…

For commercial usage, they have the CKSource Closed Distribution License.

For many companies and products, Open Source licenses are not an option. This is why the CKSource Closed Distribution License (CDL) has been introduced. It is a non-copyleft license which gives companies complete freedom when integrating CKEditor into their products and web sites…

Fun.

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Author: Chris Aniszczyk Categories: work Tags:
  1. November 5th, 2009 at 07:13 | #1

    Roll on the WTFPL.

  2. Anonymous
    November 5th, 2009 at 07:19 | #2

    not sure what you mean by impressive licensing scheme, but tri-licensing on GPL/LGPL/MPL is also used for all Mozilla code.

  3. November 5th, 2009 at 07:35 | #3

    Anonymous, it’s still crazy. Mozilla’s licensing policy is crazy too.

    They might as well release it under public domain or one license. License proliferation in open source isn’t helping us, it is helping lawyers though :)

  4. Daniel
    November 5th, 2009 at 08:06 | #4

    > Wonder why they changed the name :) ?

    Maybe also because of http://www.fck.de/ . At least that was my first association… before the other one… :)

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