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And now, a day after being served a cease and desist and telling everyone on a twitter live that he can't really talk about the issue anymore because it's now a "very serious legal matter", Matt Mullenweg has edited the WordPress trademark policy page (https://wordpressfoundation.org/trademark-policy/) to attack WP Engine once again (ON THE TRADEMARK USAGE PAGE NO LESS WTF) and explicitly (and I guess he's trying to make it retroactively too?) put them on violation of the trademark.

Old text:

The abbreviation “WP” is not covered by the WordPress trademarks and you are free to use it in any way you see fit.

New text:

The abbreviation “WP” is not covered by the WordPress trademarks, but please don’t use it in a way that confuses people. For example, many people think WP Engine is “WordPress Engine” and officially associated with WordPress, which it’s not. They have never once even donated to the WordPress Foundation, despite making billions of revenue on top of WordPress.





I can't say for sure, of course, but Matt has edit access to everything in that site, so I'm willing to bet he edited that himself last night without going through either the legal, community or PR teams. No way a legal team is ok with singling out a company in the trademark documentation. No way anyone who works writing copy went over that slurred paragraph.