The fight for any good cause demands sacrifice. So, Joomla admins, get ready to clean house.

The Core Team of the open-source content management system project has announced its commitment to full compliance with the Gnu General Public License, the leading free software license.

Joomla is a content management system used for everything from small blogs to large e-commerce sites. In fact, much of the functionality on those business-minded sites comes from third-party Joomla extensions, a good number of which are proprietary and/or not compatible with the GPL. Under this new paradigm, Joomla-powered sites running extensions with proprietary code will need to ditch those extensions and adopt free alternatives in order to comply with GPL guidelines