Its amazing how a free CMS releasesd under a GPL license has
bloat-wared itself out of the realm of usefullness for the average user. Its all cool if you're using Wordpress.com, but maintaining multiple WP blogs is more work than it needs to be - and more work than its worth.
All you plugin and theme developers
do realize that Wordpress can shut down your business in the blink of an eye? Wordpress itself won't shut you down - until they sell it off to someone and retire - but you really no control over anything that you've created.
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There is some legal grey area regarding what is considered a derivative work, but we feel strongly that plugins and themes are derivative work and thus inherit the GPL license.
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http://wordpress.org/about/license/
I understand
that as meaning
this: Everything that everyone has ever made to "enhance" Wordpress is open game, and free to use in any way I desire. Everything you've ever made for Wordpress inherits the
GPL license. Of course, I cannot buy your software and redistribute it - that's just wrong. If I DO buy your product, though, it cannot be encrypted and it must include the source code - and I'm allowed to modify it in any way I can imagine.
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Some devices are designed to deny users access to install or run modified versions of the software inside them, although the manufacturer can do so. This is fundamentally incompatible with the aim of protecting users' freedom to change the software.
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Wordpress itself breaks this rule - but updates are "optional" so its all good.
The brilliant minds behind Wordpress care as much about these rules as I care about the size of your shoes. They're too busy standing around and jerking off in each other's faces to worry about whether they provide a useable product or not.
When they finally decide that circle-jerking is old news and agree to sell the business to Yahoo (Yahoo will buy ANYTHING two years after its "Best Before Date" has come and gone...), well...
You're fucked.