Dotclear is an open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 blog publishing application

Weblog software

Weblog software is software designed to simplify the creation and maintenance of weblogs...

 distributed under the GNU GPLv2

GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

. It is relatively popular in French speaking countries, where it is used by several major blogging platforms. Developed originally by Olivier Meunier from 2002, Dotclear has now attracted a solid team of developers. The latest release of Dotclear is version 2.3, released on May 16, 2011.

Dotclear's proposed aim is to develop a software that fully respects web standards based on open source solutions, with multilingual interface and publishing capabilities. It is written in PHP (working with version 5.0 or higher) and proposes a choice of databases (SQLite

SQLite

SQLite is an ACID-compliant embedded relational database management system contained in a relatively small C programming library. The source code for SQLite is in the public domain and implements most of the SQL standard...

, PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL, often simply Postgres, is an object-relational database management system available for many platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, MS Windows and Mac OS X. It is released under the PostgreSQL License, which is an MIT-style license, and is thus free and open source software...

, ...).

Dotclear is offered as a free blogging system for all hostnames registered with Gandi.net, which guarantees a large number of users in Europe (24,421 as of 2010-02-07).