$20,000 in Perl Contest

[rvr] writes "Are you a Perl hacker? Do you want a Apple G5 with a 23" screen, a 17" PowerBook, a Thinkpad or iPods? Six Apart, the company behind of Movable Type and TypePad, is running a contest of plug-ins for Movable Type 3.0. The total amount of prizes is $22,000. The deadline is June 18, 2004."

how about a migration engine?

[iamwill]

That ports your MT blog to a any other blogging system with a single click?

Hmmm let's do the math...

[hung_himself]

$1500-$8000 of tax deductable merchandise for 6 plugins that would have taken how many $$ to produce in house or contract out???

Nice try though...

Re:READ THE FINE PRINT OF THIS CONEST -Please Read

[MrWa]

So...you send them a plugin and they get to use it? Even if it isn't the winning entry? And you still own the license and copyright to anything you submit? And it is non-exclusive? And you sent it in by choice?

What's the problem? Since you read /. I assume your plugin would have been GPL'd in any case so I don't fully understand what the issue is...

Re:READ THE FINE PRINT OF THIS CONEST -Please Read

[Anonymous Coward]

"# Six Apart will retain non-exclusive, perpetual, no-cost license to all submitted plugins."

You don't give them the rights to it. You give them a non-exclusive, perpetual, no-cost license. Basically you're letting them redestribute (licensing) the plugin with their software with no obligation of financial compensation (no-cost). You keep the rights to it, and are allowed to distribute it yourself or license it to another party as well (the non-exclusive bit).

Re:READ THE FINE PRINT OF THIS CONEST -Please Read

[Anonymous Coward]

GPL'ing the software is the AUTHORS choice not MT's also please realize they may or may NOT GPL it.

Yes. What this means is that you yourself can GPL it and distribute it as you see fit, but SixApart don't have to abide by the terms of the GPL as you have already licensed it to them under different, less restrictive terms. Unless SixApart decide to redistribute it under the BSD license or something, everybody else will have to abide by the GPL when recieving it from you, and by SixApart's license (usually proprietary) when recieving it from them.