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Yesterday, 06:32 PM | #1 | |
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WP Engine is banned from WordPress.org
Who'd have thought that what would kill WordPress wasn't all the "I'm gonna rebuild it in a modern codebase" people, but the leaders of the community themselves.
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Today, 01:55 AM | #2 |
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Brass, you can pm me if you need to talk about it bro. I'm here for you
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This is a very interesting and complicated situation, though, because it's all about open source software. On the one hand, WordPress is OSS, but the licensing for GPL has implemented some rules and restrictions for WordPress which I think most people ignore completely. Are derivative works like WP Engine forced to comply with GPL? And, does the GPL license allow unfettered access to WordPress' servers in addition to their code repository? Trademarks, on the other hand, are a different best entirely, and I'm sure there's going to be a good argument about what is considered fair use. Can I call myself a "WordPress developer", but I can't call myself a "developer for WordPress", because I don't actively develop WordPress? Does this have an even bigger implication with software development on the Web? Right now, if I couldn't use OSS through Packagist or NPM to build software for my clients, and I had to recreate everything from scratch, it would not only greatly extend the development timeline, but it would cost a fortune. From their license page: Quote:
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I personally don't like the way it calls into question whether I can use the term WordPress when I advertise my services, but I also don't think WP Engine are the good guys here, and I think they're going to ultimately lose this battle. |
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https://x.com/joshmanders/status/1839101211091296722 https://x.com/joshmanders/status/1839136514652954630 https://x.com/joshmanders/status/1839146103448514730 https://x.com/joshmanders/status/1839135223541309910
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Today, 08:15 AM | #6 |
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FYI the portfolio page in your sig is verbroken for me https://www.ceruleansoftware.net/portfolio/
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Today, 08:18 AM | #7 | |
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The problem now is that WPE is doing better than Wordpress.com and Mullenweg wants to extort them and is willing to burn the whole community down for 8% of WPE's revenue (which is literally in the millions) ANNUALLY.
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Today, 11:57 AM | #8 |
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they want to make certain words trademarked, so you need permission to use them even for plugins.
‘Managed WordPress’ & ‘Hosted WordPress’
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