Movable Type

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Movable Type, or MT, is a proprietary weblog publishing system owned by California Corporation Six Apart. It is written in Perl, and relies on either MySQL, Berkeley DB, PostgreSQL, or SQLite to store its data. Movable Type was originally named Serge after musician Serge Gainsbourg.

Movable Type is free for personal use with restrictions which can be viewed here. The personal, non-commercial use license for Movable Type says, although you may modify or create derivative copies of the Movable Type Software for your own use, you may not distribute modified or derivative copies of the Software. Various pricing models are available for business and advanced users.

The software supports several features, such as multiple weblogs, TrackBack pings, and site templates.

Movable Type is a commonly used blogging software popular outside of hosted blog services.

The current version is 3.16. Since the release of version 3.0, there have been marked changes in the licensing (see the release announcement) of Movable Type, sparking loud criticism by some users of the software.

TypePad, a hosted weblog service operated by Six Apart, is powered by Movable Type. LiveJournal, which was acquired in January 2005 by Six Apart, is not.

History

Movable Type beta 1 administration menu

October 8, 2001: Version 1.0 released.
October 22, 2001: Version 1.1 released.
November 5, 2001: Version 1.2 released. Supports pings.
December 13, 2001: 45 donations received. Donations of $20 and above receive a recently updated key. Donations of $45 and above receive personal support.
December 12, 2001: Version 1.3 released. Supports Blogger API.
January 7, 2002: Version 1.4 released.
January 11, 2002: Paid installation available for personal sites at a cost of $20 for the first hour and $5 for each additional hour.
March 20, 2002: Version 2.0 released. Supports IP banning for comments. Commercial license of $150 introduced.
May 2, 2002: Version 2.1 released. Supports MetaWeblog API.
June 26, 2002: Version 2.2 released. Supports MySQL databases and TrackBack. Plugin architecture introduced.
September 6, 2002: Version 2.5 released. Open pinging interface and integrated search.
February 13, 2003: Version 2.6 released. Support for Creative Commons licenses, RSD, and PostreSQL and SQLite databases.
December 22, 2003: Version 2.65 released. Atom sydication template introduced as a default template.
May 13, 2004: Version 3.0 released. Supports TypeKey, a centralized authentication system for commenting.
August 31, 2004: Version 3.1 released. Supports dynamic PHP publishing.

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