Tag: trademark

  • The GPL License Doesn’t Provide The Freedom To Infringe Registered Trademarks

    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 the code as you please, those freedoms are not carried over to trademarks. Take WordPress for example. WordPress is a registered trademark overseen by the WordPress Foundation. If someone wants to redistribute WordPress as is, they can under the terms…

  • WordPress.Net.IN Taken Offline

    Back on June 1st, Michael VanDeMar published a lengthy post explaining the process he goes through in order to clean up an infected website. One exploit that Michael points out is a bad index.php file which if ran as an include(), pulls bad information from the domain WordPress.Net.IN. This domain according to Michael has been…

  • WPWeekly Episode 67 – Everywhere You Look There’s A WordPress Book

    Since David was unable to make it this week, that means a free for all of topics to discuss. Thankfully, I wasn’t alone as a number of WordPress Weekly faithful stopped by to share their WordPress news stories of the week. Some of the topics we discussed include: another WordPress centric website changes domain thanks…