Joomla 1.5 Templates

Posted on June 21, 2007
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Will Commercial Templates Be Gone?

I STAND CORRECTED
Joomla 1.5 will in fact STAY as GNU/GPL as such rumors to the contrary had at one time floated about on the subject. Still after being corrected by a visitor today, the question that still remains is the debate over commercial components and additions to Joomla. Will these be required to follow Joomla’s religious adherence to the GPL guidelines?

Joomla has grown so fast over the past year that nearly every major computing industry magazine has commented on its diverse and rather explosive growth. Joomla is freeware as it stands and will continue to be such but the GPL license requirements may take a turn for the worse for third party component developers. Its being suggested that third party components will not be allowed to publish their products encrypted and commercialized for the new release of Joomla as of yet. What this does for design firms that sell drop in templates is semi cleared up in threads in the forums, but at the moment it looks like both GPL and NON will be accepted. The argument looks to be raging in the forums after looking moments ago and some feel its not fair that Joomla impose a mandate on component developers and not template developers.

I guess I stand back and conclude that In many ways the thousands of dollars I’ve spent in addition to the brutal terms we had to agree to with Amazon may in fact pay off then. Our course ware, the Rapid Template Design Series, does in fact feature a small section on CMS systems such as Joomla. What we cover in that section is how to take the central theme of the course which is visual design, and then instruct on how to apply it to various types of template engines such as Joomla, OpenRealty, creLoaded, oscommerce, or vBulletin for instance. Since its instructional and course ware, regardless of the final outcome I think we’re safe.

I’ll follow this actively now that a visitor was kind enough to point out the errors of my post and send me a set of links. Thank you Elin Waring for your corrections. I prefer to be accurate and your feedback helps.

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