At the end of the day, I just don't care one bit about licensing or any other legal mumbo jumbo. It doesn't matter to me. I want a CMS that works. Wordpress does. Thesis makes it work even better. Thus, I owe a debt of gratitude to both Matt and Chris.

In this case, both have publicly acted like 5 year olds. There are no angels here. I'm just happy we're all getting along, and we can all get back to banging out kickass websites.

Also, this whole notion that this is going to have a lasting negative effect on either side's business is just looney. 99% of WP users have no idea what the GPL is. If they did know they wouldn't care unless they thought it had some legal implication for them as a website owner which it doesn't. Does it make both parties look like douches? Yes. Horrible for business? Not really.