[wp-hackers] WP Plugin site.

[Henning Seljenes]

If the author agrees to release his code, it must be released under
the GPL. As people have stated, since it is under the GPL, the plugin
site could host the plugin regardless of what the developer decided.
But I think that goes against the WP spirit, and is not something I'd
like to see happen.

I also put together a simple script to check if a remote file exists
[1] (to see if the developer site is working). The next step is a
create a cron job php file to go through the remote links and check
whether the site is up/down and update the database/.htaccess
accordingly to enable/disable access to the local mirror copy.

I'm having trouble to get the file_upload hook to do anything (is this
active in 1.2-stable?), but once I figure out what's going on, I'll
try to create a plugin to add support for when a developer uploads
their file to the local mirror to either a) allow access to the mirror
full-time, or b) only allow access when the remote site goes down.

[1] http://www.grumm3t.com/scripts/check_remote_file/check_remote_file.phps

-- Henning

On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 03:40:50 -0400, Stephen O'Connor
<steve at stevarino.com> wrote:
> Henning Seljenes wrote:
> 
> >I like the idea of implementing a system to browse plugins via a feed,
> >but I don't know the likeliness of something like that making it into
> >the official distribution. And while a local mirror would be really
> >helpful for that kind of situation, I think it's been decided that it
> >should be at the users discretion whether or not a local version of
> >the plugin exists.
> >
> >-- Henning
> >
> >
> >
> Oh, of course. I completely agree that no action should be taken with a
> plugin without the author's knowledge and agreement. We just need to
> figure out a standard way to determine a) licensing of plugins and b) a
> plugin's granted rights. Most sites of this nature handle these issues
> with just a TOS agreement, but I don't know how that will fly in the WP
> croud.
> 
> 
> 
> - Stephen
> 
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