Dual License for Movable Styles

Thanks to suggestion from Eaden, cascading style sheets on Movable Style will be dual licensed. Currently it is licensed under Creative Common Attribution 1.0, which requires everyone who uses of MT styles created by me to give credit to me. That includes all the styles listed except Movable Type default styles (copyright Six Aprt) and Lovingrey (copyright Wavez). Now these styles can also be licensed under GNU Public License 2, so that it can be modified and included into another weblogging tool, like PHP/Smarty based BBlog.

Complicated? I think so as well. I am by no means a license expert, and I have never heard of GPLing a CSS file. But somehow this arrangement makes everything works nicely - the author of these styles get his credit, yet these styles can be compatible to applications that suffer from this GPL virus. Oh I mean applications that stand for the true spirit of Free Software.

Vladimir Dmitrijev
Vladimir Dmitrijev
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