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Wordpress Licensing – hakre on wordpress- GPL: This Deserves a Special Mention, II
- b2/cafelog is GPL
- WordPress Changes GPL License Text Again
- Akismet Introduces GPL Version to WordPress (Updated 3x)
- Kses, GPL, Copyright, Licensing and Disclaimer
- WordPress, Copyright, Hello Dolly Lyrics, the GNU GPL and I
- WordPress Licensing Issues – Plugins are GPL, Right?
- WordPress Licensing Issues – On Showing License
- Relicensing of IXR – The Incutio XML-RPC Library (Day 15)
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Tag Archives: Copyright
Ellislab, you’re doing it wrong
The following is part of a mail that’s circulating to authors and copyright holders of contributions to the Codeigniter software: If you are able to certify your prior contributions to CodeIgniter and wish to leave them, no reply is required … Continue reading
Was Hollywood Built on Piracy?
Was Hollywood Built on Piracy? (7 May 2012; by Terry Hard)
GPL: This Deserves a Special Mention, II
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
Kses, GPL, Copyright, Licensing and Disclaimer
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
Posted in Hacking The Core, Pressed, Reports, Wordpress Licensing
Tagged #16039, Copyright, Disclaimer, GPL, GPL Violation, kses, Licensing, Matt Mullenweg, Wordpress GPL Violation, Wordpress Licensing, [649]
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WordPress, Copyright, Hello Dolly Lyrics, the GNU GPL and I
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
Posted in Hacking The Core, Pressed, Wordpress Licensing
Tagged Community, Copyright, GPL, Hello Dolly, Wordpress
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WordPress Licensing Issues – Plugins are GPL, Right?
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
WordPress Licensing Issues – On Showing License
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
Posted in Hacking The Core, Pressed, Wordpress Licensing
Tagged #14685, #14703, Copyright, GNU, GNU Lesser General Public License, GPL, GPL How-To, LGPL, License, Licensing, Otto, Otto42, Samuel Wood, Software Freedom, Wordpress, WPLIC
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WordPress Licensing Issues – Progress (Day 5)
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
Posted in Hacking The Core, Pressed, Wordpress Licensing
Tagged #14685, #14703, #14726, #14727, Copyright, GPL, GPL v2, GPL Version, Incutio XML-RPC, License, version, Wordpress, xmlrpc, [15536]
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WordPress Licensing Issues – the third day
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
Posted in Pressed, Wordpress Licensing
Tagged #14703, BSD, Copyright, FIXIPO, License, Matt Mullenweg, Redistribution, Ryan Boren, SFLC, Software Freedom Law Center, Text, The BSD License, Wordpress, Wordpress Licensing, WPLIC
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WordPress Licensing Issues – the second 24 hours
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
Posted in Pressed, Wordpress Licensing
Tagged #14703, Author, Author Right, Author Rights, BSD, Copyright, FIXIPO, Free Software, GPL, Inutio XML-RPC Library, IXR, Library, Mark Jaquith, Rights, Simon Willison, The BSD License, Wordpress, Wordpress Licensing, WPLIC, XML-RPC, [15533], [15534]
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Unauthorized changes of WordPress licensing – the first 24 hours
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
Posted in Pressed, Wordpress Licensing
Tagged #14685, Andrew Nacin, Author, Author Right, Author Rights, Copyright, Free Software, GPL, Mark Jaquith, Rights, Wordpress, Wordpress Licensing, [15529]
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