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The question of the best blogging system out there arises quite often, especially after new licensing scheme, introduced by MovableType. Here’s a rather detailed breakdown of currently popular blogging and content management systems. Out of 11 software packages 10 run on any server with variations of Perl/PHP and MySQL/PostgresSQL, and one requires Windows and .NET Framework. 4 are licensed under GPL, 3 are under BSD. Mark Pilgrim explains why licensing is suddenly important.