[wp-hackers] Plugin Site

[Craig Hartel]

Well, this is my sandbox, and I invite everyone to come and play. If you don't 
want to come and play, well, that's not a problem. I won't force you to, nor 
will I grab your toys and bring them into my playground.

This will become the "go-to" site for the latest and greatest plugin news, 
reviews, and stews. Okay, I needed another rhyming word...sue me. :)

Authors will flock to the site and get the recognition and traffic they deserve, 
or they will flock off. Either way, the users will have a great resource at 
their disposal. Personally, I could care less about what license(s) are of 
concern. Simple common sense will dictate the management of the site. It's all 
too lacking in this day and age, anyway.

It's all about community and playing nice together. It's that easy.

Stephen O'Connor wrote:
> "Attempts to prevent distribution and code adoption by others violates the
> GPL in both letter and spirit. With open source, you have to set the code
> free.  If people want to tightly control distribution of their code, they
> shouldn't be working on an open source project."
> 
> What makes WP so great to me is the community; the particular license means
> little to people like myself. But an overly-strict policy would destroy the
> trust, respect, and simplicity that makes our community so much fun. I would
> hate to scare away ANY plugin author because we were so unforgiving with our
> terms.
> 
> I could see this potentially leading to a drop in open plugin publications.
> Imagine a plugin blackmarket, where a plugin is available only if the user
> promises not to mirror the content. Plugin enforcers will track down an
> illegitimate plugin and "free" it by divorcing the plugin's author. Then the
> author will be thoroughly re-educated in proper GPL behaviour. Already the
> party has plans for there to be no plugin authors, only contributors to the
> United WordPress Socialist State. </sarcasm> ;)
> 
> Please respect an authors choice even if you don't agree with it.
> 
> - Stephen
> 
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