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minibb Abandons GPL

Filed under: Asides | October 2nd, 2004
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The miniBB authors are moving away from the GPL. This is what we use for our support forums. Perhaps now would be a good time to release my version. (13)

13 Responses

  • Jon Abad | October 2nd, 2004 @ 8:41 pm

    It seems that either your link is broken or they deleted the thread on the matter…

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  • huphtur | October 2nd, 2004 @ 8:59 pm

    So that is the big secret?

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  • Matt | October 2nd, 2004 @ 9:26 pm

    Nope.

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  • CarLBanks | October 2nd, 2004 @ 9:43 pm

    Would it also have Wordpress integration? ;)

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  • huphtur | October 3rd, 2004 @ 12:58 am

    dayumn… was I atleast close?

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  • Zama | October 3rd, 2004 @ 2:04 am

    Please, please, release your version! :) I’ve got no fewer than three site development projects that are on hold, specifically because I can’t find a good forum solution that integrates with WordPress. These sites will be launched when I locate a solid WordPress/forum combination, and not sooner! :p

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  • MaThIbUs | October 3rd, 2004 @ 2:54 am

    Cool! I never knew you were planning on releasing your version. Respect — the open source community rocks.

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  • TeRanEX | October 3rd, 2004 @ 4:27 pm

    I have never used miniBB, but looking at the features list it compares to the features of PunBB, which is a lightweight GPL forum and uses php and mysql (or postgresql) and there is a minibb to punbb converter :-) .
    You can find PunBB here: http://punbb.org/

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  • Rogier | October 4th, 2004 @ 2:31 am

    Yeah, PunBB is great. It’s fast and lightweight, but I suggest waiting a little bit, for 1.2 to be officially released.

    They dropped al the tables in that release.

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  • fernando_graphicos | October 13th, 2004 @ 6:49 am

    this is timely..

    loads of questions on the WP support forums about shared cookies, how to get your recently commented posts to hop into the first position, and more…

    any integration with a functional board would be outtasight.

    c’mon!
    (and can i help?)

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  • David Chait | October 15th, 2004 @ 10:41 pm

    Matt, I’d love to see where you’ve gotten — I assume you might have been working on WP integration, and I’m looking at minibb as a ‘lighter’ option than phpbb seems…

    -d

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  • Craig Hartel | December 30th, 2004 @ 6:48 am

    On October 20, 2004, the miniBB team posted saying that they have now decided to stick with the GPL. Interesting.

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