[wp-hackers] Plugin Site

Carthik Sharma carthik at gmail.com
Sun Jul 18 22:26:44 UTC 2004


I can't agree more with Ryan,
If this weren't all open source, I wouldn't have bothered spending any
time with any of this, at all.
I agree with Craig, too. Just put it all up there, and maybe you could
give a thought to linking to the author's site for the source, and
maintaining a cached copy of the plugin source, just for use when the
author's site is down.

Thank you,
Carthik.

On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 11:58:17 -0500, Ryan Boren <ryan at boren.nu> wrote:
> > I'm glad Craig seems to have respect for the developer's wishes, no
> > matter what the GPL would give him permission to do.
> 
> It's also about plugin authors respecting the GPL and not trying to opt
> out of the open source ecology.   Authors who muddle the license their
> code is released under legally taint that code.  I wouldn't touch it
> with a ten foot pole.  I think all plugin authors should have a
> copyright and license declaration at the top of their plugins.  That
> license must be GPL or GPL-compatible.  This is to protect WordPress as
> well as the plugin author.  In my opinion, the plugin site shouldn't
> accept plugins without a clearly-stated copyright and GPL-compatible
> license.
> 
> Anyway, if authors don't want their plugin on the site, yank it down.
> Even if someone else tries to sponsor it, I say don't put it on the site
> since the original author has made a legal muddle of his code by
> opposing the GPL terms of distribution and trying to add a vanity
> clause.  It's not worth it.  I've been in court too many times over
> copyright, licensing, and patents.  The only safe thing to do is to shun
> suspect plugins.  Someone else will write a truly free plugin that can
> be legally distributed.
> 
> The license is important.  It is the most important.  I've spent 12
> years writing open source code, and I'm not really too fond of those who
> create derived works of open code and then mess about with the primary
> tenet of open licenses -- open distribution.  Why join an open source
> project if you're going to do that?
> 
> And that's all IMO, of course.
> 
> Ryan
> 
> 
> 
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