This is effectively true; as noted in my other comments, WordPress doesn’t have a CLA, so contributors retain rights to their contributions. The trademark, doma

This is effectively true; as noted in my other comments, WordPress doesn’t have a CLA, so contributors retain rights to their contributions. The trademark, domains, and some other legal parts are owned by the WordPress Foundation. For example, the team working on the React-based rich editor (Gutenberg) wanted to relicense it under dual MPL and GPL in order to encourage adoption within mobile apps (it supports React Native). To do so, they had to get agreement from over 700 contributors to relicense it: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/09/21/proposal-dual-licensing-gutenberg-under-gpl-v2-0-and-mpl-v2-0/ https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/09/21/proposal-dual-lic...