Interesting interview.

I am glad to hear Matt admit that he is intentionally conflating the legal construct that is the GPL and the philosophical concerns and ethics of the Free Software "movement".

It is basically Matt saying, implicitly, "I want the WordPress community to adopt the ethics and philosophy of the Free Software movement". I would *love* for Matt actually to use this terminology, rather than the bogus "spirit of the GPL". If so, the community can actually have a conversation regarding adopting (or not) those ethics and philosophy.

But until the ethics and philsophy of the Free Software movement are explicitly separated from the copyright implications of GPL, that conversation really can never properly take place.

Of course, the other critical component of that conversation is actually letting the community decide - which requires turning over control of wordpress.org (and its all-critical theme and plugin repositories) over to the community.