The history of jQuery
jQuery was originally released in January 2006 at BarCamp NYC by John Resig and was influenced by Dean Edwards' earlier cssQuery library.[24] It is currently maintained by a team of developers led by Timmy Willison (with the jQuery selector engine, Sizzle, being led by Richard Gibson). jQuery has also an interesting software license history.[25] Originally under the CC BY-SA 2.5, it was relicensed to the MIT license in 2006.[26] On end of 2006 it was dual-licensed under GPL and MIT license.[27] As this lead to some confusion, in 2012 the GPL was dropped and is now only MIT licensed. As of 2015, jQuery remains the most widely used JavaScript library on the Web. According to JavaScript library analytics service, Libscore, jQuery is in use on over 63% of the top million most popular sites by traffic volume.[5] Notable sites using it include Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and eBay.
