[squeak-dev] [ANN] Pier 1.1

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Thu Feb 5 09:44:35 UTC 2009


I tripped over the exact same thing. "Free as in beer" is commonly  
used to refer to closed-source freeware (or even adware etc.). And  
nothing on the front page clarifies the license, so if someone saw  
this for the first time they would mistake it for something  
proprietary. My first thought was "oh, they changed the license?"  
Which of course is the opposite of reality, being MIT-licensed makes  
Pier more liberal than most other open-source projects.

- Bert -

On 05.02.2009, at 01:20, Joshua Gargus wrote:

> Nice logo!
>
> The front page of piercms.com states that Pier is "free as in beer",  
> a phrase that means "gratis" as opposed to "libre".  However, since  
> Pier is under the MIT license, it is also "free as in freedom".   
> Some might find this confusing; I did.
>
> Cheers,
> Josh
>
>
> On Feb 4, 2009, at 4:12 PM, Tudor Girba wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Release 1.1 of Pier is now available:
>> www.piercms.com/install
>>
>> What's new:
>> - Several bug fixes
>> - New syntax constructs
>> - New and whiter stylesheet
>> - Pharo inside
>>
>> www.piercms.com also received a face lift, and it received some new  
>> documentation.
>>
>> Have fun and tell us what you think.
>>
>> Doru and Lukas
>>
>
>






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