Even more damning, one of Thesis' developers just admitted to copying the code from WP: http://ma.tt/2010/07/syn-thesis-1/#comment-481846 http://ma.tt/2010/07/

Even more damning, one of Thesis' developers just admitted to copying the code from WP: http://ma.tt/2010/07/syn-thesis-1/#comment-481846 http://ma.tt/2010/07/syn-thesis-1/#comment-481846 [source] http://imgur.com/jNs7c.jpg http://imgur.com/jNs7c.jpg [screen shot] Chris could definitely make his business work by embracing the GPL rather than fighting it. Cut some sort of deal with Matt, accept code contributions to decrease development time and, generally, use Thesis to launch a million other non-GPL products. He also seems worried about others stealing/selling his work, this is over-stated. Couldn't he just trademark the Thesis name to mitigate most of this risk? I would also bet that most of his customers would prefer buying the real thing over some unsupported knockoff. GPL or not, people who don't want to pay will find a way to get it for free.