[wp-hackers] Plugin Site

[Alex King]

The previous threads on this demonstrated that several plugin 
developers felt very strongly about *not* having their downloads 
directly linked to. Several of today's posts have said something along 
the lines of: "The GPL means people can't stop us from mirroring their 
plugins". This is how such a condition could quite easily arise.

--Alex

http://www.alexking.org/


On Jul 16, 2004, at 2:54 PM, Rich Bowen wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Alex King wrote:
>
>> If the authors feel an 'us vs. them' mentality about the site, I don't
>> see the site becoming as successful as it would with their support;
>> regardless of the legality of licensing issues.
>
> Presumably it would be the authors who would be submitting their code 
> to
> the site in the first place. I'm not sure I see how such a condition
> could ever arise in the first place.