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After a month discussion about Can Joomla! extensions be released under non-GPL compatible licenses? finally Joomla release a news about the future planning of the famous CMS in the world. You can followup the discussion at here http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,163492.0.html

http://www.joomla.org/content/view/3510/1/

Here is some of the highlight.
oomla! is moving to ensure the future of the project by committing to compliance with the GNU/GPL license. This decision reflects a lengthy introspection combined with legal considerations to properly secure the project in the spirit of Open Source. For us, for everyone, Open Source does matter. It's a long, slow road. We're not going to make any sudden moves because we know that a lot of people are relying on us to maintain some stability and meet expectations. We are very much aware that a lot of people make their living around Joomla!, and we are sensitive to producing sudden disruptions in livelihoods. Joomla! is a unique project with unique needs and unique GPL issues. Solutions won't just come off the shelf. There are solutions and compromises on these issues that we are still exploring, and we want to keep hearing from the community so we can get it right. We will provide facts as soon as we have them. If we seem too silent, it's because we don't want to speak until we can do so clearly and confidently. And you'll have plenty of notice before any large changes get made. Here's the plan: first, we clean our own house and bring the Joomla! sites into compliance. Next, we ask people in the community to voluntarily comply with the license. At the same time, we try to help people understand what it takes to comply and how they can do it easily. We believe we're going to get a lot of compliance that way.

So far, that's the entire plan. No lawsuits, no pogroms, no martyrs. More to the point, no shouting, no demonisation, and no drawing lines between "us" and "them". It's a big community with many kinds of developers, and we want solutions that will work for everybody. Sticking with the GPL
We have decided to stay with the license that made Joomla! possible. Unanimously supported by the core team and supported by the Open Source Matters board, this confirms that both Joomla! 1.0 and Joomla! 1.5 are released under the (pure) GPL.

Advantage
   - increase GPL compliance in our community
   - bring the project up to a representative standard shared by other like-minded open source projects
   - follow through on our commitment that the project should lead by example and engender open source philosophy
   - move to educate on ways for commercial Joomla! based projects to be both profitable and compliant

*p.s: I hope more promising Component will be developed in the future :)

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