Zed.cbc.ca Code Open Sourced

This is pretty cool, eh?  <smile>

It seems that the CBC has decided to open source the code used to build Zed.cbc.ca.

Hear ye! Hear ye! As a little post-holiday gift for all you hardcore code monkeys out there, we're offering up the source code for this here website. Read, modify and redistribute it as you please. It's our way of saying "thanks" for your enthusiastic participation in ZeD over the years.

For more info, or to download the source code, go to: http://zed.cbc.ca/opensource

 

Comments

[mrG]

For those who may not know, this is the third time the CBC has released source code for a major project as opensource/free-software; PMTS, a simple multi-site and perl-based template system behind most of the CBC Regional News websites, was released under the GPL sometime around 1997, and Sportwire, the software which collects sports news and stats and also displays the scoreboards and play-by-play on the cbc.ca/sports websites, was publically released under the GPL in the late 90's and permanently moved to the http://sportwire.sourceforge.net/ on 2001-10-17 (in time for the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics) -- in both cases there was no official acknowledgement on the CBC websites and all distribution was through other channels, and the Corporation later requested the removal of all CBC logos and any implied endorsements of the co-branded Sportwire website (and have since forked the code into their own proprietary version), but nonetheless, these were true-blue free-software and the original versions remain and will always remain free.

So I congratulate Zed in this further bold step. Zed now gains the important distinction of being allowed to proudly and openly state their free-software status on CBC property, and the additional status of being allowed to publically endorse other free software (JBoss, Tomcat, SuSE) with corporate approval.

My how times change, eh?

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