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Adam   2012-03-01

Registration disabled

Due numerous spam attempts using registration for of CMSity, I have decided to disable registration form. If you want to know more about CMSity use contact form.

Adam   2010-11-15

CMSity source is now open

Tags: code, Future, license, News, open-source, source

Why?

It has been long time since last CMSity project activity. Since then I am now more into iPhone and mobile applications programming than web projects. CMSity is IMHO still nice little CMS engine and rather letting it die slowly I am now opening now its source code.

License?

The license has not changed much, I just removed distinction between Pro and Free version, and now it lets you modify the code with one exception, you do it for yourself. I have not decided to move to GPL, mainly because I got no time to think it over. Anyway I am open to consider it and give the maintenance to anyone who is interested.

Future?

Well, now I am creating mobile application and having great fun doing it, so I do not think I will put any more effort extending CMSity.

1 Adam   2009-04-28

Unclear future of CMSity

Tags: Future, News

Is closed-source project like CMSity doomed to the death nowadays?

Seems it is very hard to spread the news about CMSity around the world, and acquire some user base of this project. Till now I did few commercial deployments of CMSity, however the cmsity.com page hits look really miserable.

I wrote mails to many CMS magazines asking to drop a note about my project. However only two of them replied and posted something on their sites about CMSity. So I still miss some more reviews that can put a breathe into the project. But it seems my mails are ignored by majority of big CMS related sites making very hard to promote new project like CMSity nowadays.

Since I believe this software presents great value and outperforms other popular solutions I consider releasing it as open-source, however probably not GPL but some license that will force the code to stay by the author (me), deny all the forks, making all community changes happen to be included in the source code base.

Open-source is a great idea, but I have seen too many projects that were just bloated, forked and spoiled by masses of developers that were just about put something of themselves in the project regardless of quality of the included changes, missing overall sense and directions of the project itself. That is why I decided to keep the code closed initially, while giving the licenses for free, but it seems non-open source project are just kicked out of the focus today, and releasing the source code is a "must" to gain the momentum.