Being part of the GetSimple team get-simple.info/… I don’t think my opinion of the software matters much. I do wish to comment on the GPL thing.

I too am not a big fan of GPL, and I might take up the discussion again and see if I can get GetSimple relicensed. However, as long as we wish Google’s free SVN we will be stuck to a license they have pre-chosen.

For one, CC-BY mentioned by Kroc, is not an option.

* Apache License 2.0
* Artistic License/GPL
* Eclipse Public License 1.0
* GNU General Public License v2
* GNU General Public License v3
* GNU Lesser General Public License
* MIT License
* Mozilla Public License 1.1
* New BSD License
* Other Open Source

“Other Open Source” does not seem to have any further specification and could very well end up being weird.

I don’t think Chris has read through all those licenses before picking, he just took one that sounded mainstream.

We’re not very protective of our code. Neither do we expect you to feed back everything to us. (We might ask kindly for it on the forums though.)

Neither are we the “self-righteous freedom-fighters” that think you’re a leecher. We build a CMS that should be easy to use by clients, we are catering “leechers” specifically ;-)