Category Archives: Wordpress Licensing

GPL: This Deserves a Special Mention, II

Posted on 17 Feb 2011 by hakre

A week ago I asked the wordpress project who to contact for source code, especially for those parts no source-code exists for in the zip- and tar-gz-files. You might wonder: Source for wordpress – it’s already there, right? So what … Continue reading →

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b2/cafelog is GPL

Posted on 3 Feb 2011 by hakre

As some of you know I’m currently in contact with Mark Jaquith, a WordPress lead developer, regarding my questions to licensing of the WordPress package. This conversation is still ongoing and started after he published an article on the WordPress … Continue reading →

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WordPress Changes GPL License Text Again

Posted on 15 Jan 2011 by hakre

Within less than a year, a wordpress core developer changed wordpress’s licensing statement again. This time it has been changed from GPL to GPL v2+. The Changeset was [17301]: WordPress contains libraries only available under the GPL v2 or later. … Continue reading →

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Akismet Introduces GPL Version to WordPress (Updated 3x)

Posted on 1 Jan 2011 by hakre

I just ran over the fact that in August 2010 Alex Shiels (tellyworth) tagged the akismet readme with “License: GPLv2”. The info left in the changelog is: * Spell out that the license is GPLv2 Well, even that this is … Continue reading →

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Kses, GPL, Copyright, Licensing and Disclaimer

Posted on 30 Dec 2010 by hakre

The current wordpress security release made me look into kses.php today. But my review ended before going over the first 10 lines already. Guess what I ran over? Jup, another wordpress GPL license violation. How did I find it? It … Continue reading →

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WordPress, Copyright, Hello Dolly Lyrics, the GNU GPL and I

Posted on 22 Dec 2010 by hakre

In the recent discussions about the Hello Dolly lyrics that are shipping with WordPress and in the plugin repository, there has been a lot of fuzz. I think it’s about time that I name why write about the issue: I’d … Continue reading →

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WordPress Licensing Issues – Plugins are GPL, Right?

Posted on 15 Dec 2010 by hakre

If you thought that the wordpress package you can download from wordpress.org is re-distributable under GPL, then you’re thinking wrong. Why do I say so? Thanks to a ticket opened by novasource, it came to my attention, that the Hello … Continue reading →

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WordPress Licensing Issues – On Showing License

Posted on 6 Oct 2010 by hakre

When it comes to the GPL wordpress front-persons Jane Wells or Matt Mullenweg do not get tired to underline the importance to spread the word about software freedom. That is generally a good thing if the information provided is correct … Continue reading →

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Relicensing of IXR – The Incutio XML-RPC Library (Day 15)

Posted on 8 Sep 2010 by hakre

The Incutio XML-RPC Library, used by WordPress, is available in a new version. It is relicensed under the GPL-compatible New BSD License now. The License of the file in wordpress has been questioned in the recent WordPress GPL, licensing and … Continue reading →

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WordPress Licensing Issues – NOOP (Day 8)

Posted on 2 Sep 2010 by hakre

Day eight was mainly reflecting and running loops. I had a long and great discussion with friends in the evening not only about licensing in wordpress but in other free software projects as well that was very insightful. That poses … Continue reading →

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WordPress Licensing Issues – Summary (Week 1)

Posted on 1 Sep 2010 by hakre

The last days were very informative, I’m learning a lot about licensing. That’s not only in general but more important from a free software perspective in specific. All those how to get things right. WordPress might look a bit as … Continue reading →

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WordPress Licensing Issues – Submitting Code (Day 6) (Update 1x)

Posted on 30 Aug 2010 by hakre

Taking care about licensing within a free software project means to care about the code that comes into the project. There are several things a project should take care of there, one of them is a clear policy for submitting … Continue reading →

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WordPress Licensing Issues – Progress (Day 5)

Posted on 30 Aug 2010 by hakre

I was not able to finish my report for day 5 in my WordPress Licensing series yesterday night, so I’ll add it this morning. My topic this time is progress. Despite the fact, that when confronted with the topic that … Continue reading →

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WordPress Licensing Issues – Why I care (Day 4)

Posted on 28 Aug 2010 by hakre

Why should I care about WordPress Code’s License Issues? This might be a question you ask yourself as well when you’re a WordPress Contributor, Theme or Plugin Developer. (Yesterday: WordPress Licensing Issues – the third day) It’s pretty simple. As … Continue reading →

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WordPress Licensing Issues – the third day

Posted on 28 Aug 2010 by hakre

Wordpress development goes on every day. At least for that part that has a committing developer. In case there is none, it gets stuck. Licensing issues only seem to be interesting in the beginning. You get comments by core developers … Continue reading →

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WordPress Licensing Issues – the second 24 hours

Posted on 27 Aug 2010 by hakre

After the first 24 hours I became aware of the unauthorized changes of WordPress licensing, the day started with some positive movement. A member of the WordPress team did revert the changes in trunk [15533] and the 3.0 branch [15534] … Continue reading →

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Unauthorized changes of WordPress licensing – the first 24 hours

Posted on 25 Aug 2010 by hakre

Circa 24 hours ago it came to my attention that the wordpress codebase was silently re-licensed some months ago (before l88 / GPL -/- after l105 / GPLv2). The copyright related licensing statement has been changed on February 28th 2010 … Continue reading →

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