In reply to Carl Hancock.

I take him seriously no matter what name he uses. If he wants to stay semi anonymous I respect that as I do it myself in many places over the web.

I will not abandon WP because of it but my opinion of Automattic goes more down the drain as time goes on.

They recommend GPL 2.0 or later for WP based projects, yet they use GPL 2.0 (without later) for Jetpack to start small. My request to change it seems not moving forward. https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/pull/6609

Then there is Jetpack on its own as a disgusting bloated money making machine pulling in ignorant people to pay for stuff they do not need that also needs 3rd party stuff from them when I always thought Matts vision was to empower independence for self hosted installs and to seperate .com and .org. Then there is this the thesis.com thing (and I do not mean defending the GPL, I mean stealing the domain) where I am so disgusted by this, I would expect any pure evil company to do this but the last company I expected to be this viscous abusing and hateful is them. Not anymore sadly.

And now the licensing thing. Even if the best Lawyers in the world say there is no risk there I think it should be automattics obligation to drop it like a hot potato even if there is only 0.000000001% risk. On one hand they defend the GPL but on the other the not see harm in using this Trojan Horse of a license from a company that is deeply immoral and completely contrary to everything I thought WP stands for in the first place. In fact this fits FB perfectly if you ask me, I would not expect anything else then this from them.