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Why is Wordpress(TM) not open source ? Like under Apache foundation or something https://www.apache.org/ https://www.apache.org/
by throwaway888abc 2y ago
Why is Wordpress(TM) not open source ?
Like under Apache foundation or something
https://www.apache.org/ https://www.apache.org/
- beaconify 2y agoGo nuts: https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/license.txt https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/license.t... Trademark != Copyright
- FireBeyond 2y agoBecause it is "perpetually, exclusively, and irrevocably" licensed to Automattic.
- nxicvyvy 2y agoIrrevocably? Sure about that?
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- Brian_K_White 2y agoThey are sure the license says that. It only controls the trademark anyway no different from firefox or anything else with a trademarked name. Anyone else can do anything else the gpl allows with the software, just under some other name.