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I think the article explained it to me, thanks. >The hosting platform was acquired by the private equity firm Silver Lake in 2018 Being acquired by a private

by jmclnx 2y ago

I think the article explained it to me, thanks. >The hosting platform was acquired by the private equity firm Silver Lake in 2018 Being acquired by a private equity firm usually never ends well. >Silver Lake doesn’t give a dang about your open source ideals — it just wants return on capital. This I believe. >But WP Engine is ultimately abiding by the rules of WordPress’ open-source license Since WP is under the GPLv2 and if WP Engine is conforming to the GPL, I agree with this. Maybe WP should move to the GPLv3 ? >either by paying a licensing fee or making contributions to the open source WordPress project Is WP Engine not releasing source changes to the public ? If so I think this is a GPL violation. I guess the outcome is as usual, the users suffer the most.

chuckadams 2y ago
WPE not only releases everything under the GPL, they are committers to the upstream source. Or were, anyway. It's true that Automattic could switch their to distribution to GPLv3 (unlike Linux, it's "GPLv2 or later"). This would release a shitstorm of biblical proportions from every WP host on the planet, not just WPE. It would guarantee at least one fork becoming adopted by many of those hosts. Certainly many hours of entertainment.