This is the official bridge to Joomla released from Simple Machines. The Simple Machines Forum is a powerful and scalable forum system used by many medium to large sites.

As with all other official Simple Machines bridges, this bridge makes no changes to any Joomla nor SMF source code, maximizing compatibility and ease of upgrades.

The bridge is released under the terms of the SMF license.

However, third party modules and mambots are available under the GPL license:

Various modules and bots: http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=81152.msg541423#msg541423

SMF Discussbot by Chadness: http://www.technoadvice.com/component/remository/Download/Joomla-and-Mambo/SMF-Discussbot-version-4.2-beta-1/