@tante Automattic is going against multiple of their own Code of Conduct and official Handbook rules, which every other plugin maintainer has to follow.
But I guess if you're the king of the castle, the rules suddenly don't apply to you anymore.
GPL is a tricky thing though because of its virality. If you integrate a plugin into WordPress, which is under GPL, is the plugin also required to be GPL, because of this virality?
I honestly don't know, but it's been kind of enforced in that way.