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   Tek say resist (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 09:14:44 JST Tek say resist

   Today I learned their are WordPress plugin authors who:

   1. Release commercial plugins under the GPL, and
   2. Stomp their little feet and call people thieves when they edit out the license check code in those Free Software plugins.

   If you don't want people to edit and redistribute your code, you should *not* be releasing it under the GPL. And if you do, and then complain about it, we're going to laugh at you.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 09:14:42 JST SuperDicq

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     @tek@freeradical.zone They are free to complain all they want. They can't do anything legally however, so it does not matter.

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     Tek say resist (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 09:14:43 JST Tek say resist

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     I don't even use WordPress, but that's just silly. Did they genuinely not understand what they were signing up for?

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     Jer Clarke (jerclarke@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 11:36:45 JST Jer Clarke

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     @tek It’s worth noting that they are forced to license WordPress plugins as GPL. They aren’t there for the license, they are there for the customer base. There was a whole drama about this years ago.

     If they could sell plugins under another license, they would.

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     Tek say resist (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 11:36:45 JST Tek say resist

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     • Jer Clarke

     @jerclarke True, but they still released GPL’d software. You don’t get to do that and then grouse that people are exercising their written freedoms. I mean, if the WordPress team hadn’t released it under the GPL in the first place, they probably wouldn’t have anything to write a plugin for.

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     Chris [list of emoji] (suetanvil@freeradical.zone)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 23:29:14 JST Chris [list of emoji]

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     @tek

     Wasn't this also the origin of Jenkins? (I.e. the owners of Hudson failed to understand the implications of the GPL.)

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     Tek say resist (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 00:06:05 JST Tek say resist

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     • Chris [list of emoji]

     @suetanvil Seems like it. Oracle was all like “you have to do what we say!”, and a thousand developers were like “nah, dog”.