KoreaCrunch

The famous korean blogging tool, Tattertools decided to go to open source. Mr. Noh, Jungseok, CEO of Tatter&Company announced GPL Lincense of Tattertools ver. 1.0.3. Tattertools has many 3rd party contributor such as developing plugin and producing theme(skin). He commented the company doesn’t have any plan to make a money for selling blog tool and wants to make a platform to brand themselves of each bloggers. This is very simlar with Wordpress.org and Automattic.

In fact, this project was originated by one person and there have been many contributing users to develope it. Many korean developers are very glad to this decision and hope to become successful story in open source model. Soon he will announce new open source group for Tattertools ver. 2.0. so called Tatter&Friends. But, core developers in company will manage this project for a while as like Netscape and Mozilla.org model.

You can refer its GPL plan from as followings: (in Korean)
http://www.tatterstory.net/attachment/1316758279.pdf