{"id":299,"date":"2004-05-20T18:20:09","date_gmt":"2004-05-21T00:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=299"},"modified":"2004-05-20T18:20:09","modified_gmt":"2004-05-21T00:20:09","slug":"moveabletype-licensing-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2004\/05\/20\/moveabletype-licensing-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"MoveableType Licensing Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure this is really a good thing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I use MoveableType for this blog as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/fiction\/index.html\">the Fiction Blog <\/a>on this site.  I also use it on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ryumaou.com\/hoffman\/netgeek\/\">my other site <\/a>and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.babydoll.org\/\">my wife uses it<\/a>, too.  So, we have a lot invested in this free software.  But, I&#8217;m willing to pay for it.  Especially if they&#8217;re adding features.  And, there&#8217;s the rub.  They&#8217;ve updated it, okay, and they added a comment registration feature, which is good, but that&#8217;s all they did.  Well, they made changes to the API to make it easier to write plug-ins, but in the process, they may, or may not, have broken existing plug-ins.  Now, that I&#8217;m not willing to pay for&#8230;  On the other hand, what else is there?  Nothing else seems to be as robust or extendable.  At least, nothing that I&#8217;ve found yet.  So, I have an e-mail in to them regarding my particular licensing issue, and we&#8217;ll see what they say.  I may pay for the commercial version, based on the idea that this site will have commercial content, but we&#8217;ll have to wait and see&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE:<\/b>  Don&#8217;t panic!  By commerical content, I mean that I might start selling things off the site, not that I&#8217;d start to charge for what is already here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure this is really a good thing&#8230; I use MoveableType for this blog as well as the Fiction Blog on this site. I also use it on my other site and my wife uses it, too. So, we have a lot invested in this free software. But, I&#8217;m willing to pay for it. Especially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,19,14,17],"tags":[447,446],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crass-commerce","category-criticism-marginalia-and-notes","category-news-and-current-events","category-personal","tag-api","tag-free-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}