The Facebook platform has become open.
The news was published on TechCrunch - from today the Facebook platform becomes open.
The Facebook Open Platform is licensed under the Common Public Attribution License (CPAL), with the exception of the FBML tag (allows you to create forms that look exactly like the native forms of Facebook itself), which includes the source code of Mozilla, which is licensed under the Mozilla Public License (MPL) .
The main version of why Facebook does this is to compete with OpenSocial. So on the one side of the front line of Facebook with its open platform, and on the other - a number of social networks (Google / MySpace / Yahoo / AOL), united through OpenSocial.
It is interesting when the Russian developers of social networks will switch to more open formats.
The Facebook Open Platform is licensed under the Common Public Attribution License (CPAL), with the exception of the FBML tag (allows you to create forms that look exactly like the native forms of Facebook itself), which includes the source code of Mozilla, which is licensed under the Mozilla Public License (MPL) .
The main version of why Facebook does this is to compete with OpenSocial. So on the one side of the front line of Facebook with its open platform, and on the other - a number of social networks (Google / MySpace / Yahoo / AOL), united through OpenSocial.
It is interesting when the Russian developers of social networks will switch to more open formats.