foodary.org
Other than having posted about nutridb.org a couple weeks ago, I haven’t really thought too much about the site or code in a while. However, once every couple months it occurs to me to search Google for “nutridb” to see if anyone else has mentioned it. Today I did one such search, and was surprised to find a site that was using the nutridb code: foodary.org. There are a couple of other sites associated with this one: foodary.wordpress.org and foodary.com.
I was pleased to see that the author, Keith Taylor, was nice enough to credit me at all three sites. This is the type of usage I was hoping to see … someone taking the code, putting a prettier shell around it and perhaps extending and improving it.
At the moment he appears to have just modified the CSS and added a header image, but this is fine. Viva free software. I released the PHP code under an MIT (X11) license, and I generally prefer this license type, along with BSD licenses, to the [L]GPL because I consider them to truly be free in every sense of the word, though I do think there are certainly cases where the GPL and LGPL are warranted.