In Case You Missed It – Issue 16
There’s a lot of great WordPress content published in the community but not all of […]
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Commercial WordPress Product Descriptions Can Mislead Customers into Purchasing More Licenses Than Necessary
WordPress the open-source software project is licensed under the GPLv2. This license grants users and […]
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In Case You Missed It – Issue 6
There’s a lot of great WordPress content published in the community but not all of […]
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Poll Shows Majority Consider Public Redistribution of Commercial Themes and Plugins to be Unethical
Four months ago, Richard Best, a lawyer who maintains a blog focused on legal matters […]
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Richard Best Publishes Human Readable Version of the GPLv2 License
WordPress is licensed under the GPLv2 and the four freedoms it allows is considered to […]
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How and When Mullenweg Learned Thesis Changed Back to a Proprietary License
We now know when Matt Mullenweg discovered Chris Pearson changed Thesis’ license from split GPL […]
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Mullenweg and Pearson Square Off on Patents, GPL, and Trademarks
In a post titled “The Truth About Thesis.com,” Chris Pearson responded to the recent heated […]
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GitHub Launches Licenses API to Help Open Source Developers License Their Code
Open source software makes up the vast majority of licensed code hosted on GitHub, as […]
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Tackling the Issue of WordPress Derivative Works
In 2009-10, there was an intense debate between the co-creator of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg, and […]
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Richard Best Launches New Website Devoted to WordPress Legal Topics
Over the weekend, I stumbled across a new resource called WP and Legal Stuff run […]
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Varying Vagrant Vagrants Adopts Open Source MIT License
Varying Vagrant Vagrants 1.2.0 was released last week after nine months in development. As of […]
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The GPL License Doesn’t Provide The Freedom To Infringe Registered Trademarks
While the GPLv2 is an open source license that offers many freedoms to do with […]
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Are The Days Of Paying Less Than $100 For A WordPress Theme Over?
If you are selling WordPress themes or thinking about entering the markets, there’s been a […]
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VersionPress Adopts The GPL Software License
When I wrote about the VersionPress project and campaign last week, a major sticking point […]
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13 Sources For Free Public Domain and CC0-Licensed Images
Yesterday, we featured WP Inject, a plugin that makes it easy to insert Creative Commons […]