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Our Story
WordPress started in 2003 when Mike Little and Matt Mullenweg created a fork of b2/cafelog . The need for an elegant, well-architected personal publishing system was clear even then. Today, WordPress is built on PHP and MySQL, and licensed under the GPL v2. It is also the platform of choice for over 43% of all sites across the web.
The WordPress open-source project has evolved in progressive ways over time – supported by skilled, enthusiastic developers, designers, scientists, bloggers, and more. WordPress provides the opportunity for anyone to create and share, from handcrafted personal anecdotes to world-changing movements. People with limited tech experience can use it “out of the box”, and more tech-savvy folks can customise it in remarkable ways.
Bill of Rights
WordPress is licensed under the General Public Licence (GPL v2 or later) , which provides four core freedoms. Consider this the WordPress Bill of Rights:
The First Freedom
To run the program for any purpose.
The Second Freedom
To study how the program works and change it to make it do what you wish.
The Third Freedom