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Did you also report the employer's "theft", as you put it, of WordPress's GPL'd code?
by whatyoucantsay 9y ago
Did you also report the employer's "theft", as you put it, of WordPress's GPL'd code?
- xref 9y agothat's just...that's just not at all what GPL is
- whatyoucantsay 9y agoThe GPL is a license. If you don't abide by it, you don't get to download a copy of the software, sell it or create derivative works. The history of WP itself enforcing the GP is instructive. More recently, Panasonic Avionics has been sued for $100M due to GPL violations.
- AstralStorm 9y agoGPL does not force you to publish anything. But if you do publish a derivative work (including a binary) you must make sources available on request. A WordPress-generated website is likely not a derivative work of WordPress source code. (Which is why Affero GPL exists.) The further specifics depend on GPL version employed.
- whatyoucantsay 9y agoAh, I'd been thinking this was a theme. If it's a site generated with WP, that's completely different. My reaction was largely to the poster's self-righteous attitude about "theft", which has mapped to many GPL violators I've encountered.