After all the pain I went through last year I can't actually believe I am doing this, however, I am thinking of changing the license for liveTopics from my custom license (the LSLA) to use a Creative Commons license.

My current plans are to release two editions of liveTopics tentatively dubbed the Personal and Collaborative editions.

liveTopics Personal Edition (PE) will be basically continue to be free for non-commercial use as liveTopics is now.  Of the license available I think the:

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0

seems closest to the spirit of the LSLA.  liveTopics PE will include all of the Table of Contents & weblog based features that most people are using now, but it will not include any of the topic mapping functionality.

liveTopics Collaborative Edition (CE) will include the ability to create topic maps (in both XTM and XFML formats), the ability to do trackback pings on topics (ala Phil Pearsons TopicExchange), and be able to output topics in RSS2.0 to enable smart aggregators.  liveTopics CE will support commerical use.

I am considering a price tag of $65 (USD) / £40 (UKP) for a CE license.

I'd be interested in any and all feedback on these plans.  They are by no means definite (other than that all of those features will be available in some combination, somehow).

If this test works then liveTopics will have automatically pinged the topics associated with this post at Topic Exchange.  The evidence will be here.

Okay, slight hiccup -- let's try that again...

I've spent the last two days reworking some of the innards of liveTopics.  First, I've implemented a completely new preferences management system, and, second, I've removed a great deal of the cruft that has accumulated as liveTopics has grown from a quick and grotty hack into a big and tangled hack.

This is kind of a test to see whether things are still working in my blog.

I've also pushed the version up to 1.1.1 for reasons which are probably not too interesting.

Okay there are clearly problems...  <grrr>

Well of course it would have helped if I had remember to reset the new preferences....

That fixes the topic links, unfortunately the TOC is not being updated now...

Try this.  Nope, how about that.  The other?

Right with a bit of luck the ToC generator is fixed.  Now to try and ping the Topic Exchange ;-)