[wp-hackers] WordPress plugin update bugs

[Omry Yadan]

I can read, and I did know that any GPL compatible plugins are allowed.

you may have no intended to, but you did dodge the point.

Travis response to you was exactly what I wanted to say.




Robin Adrianse wrote:

> I'm not dodging the point at all. I was merely responding to Omry, not you,
> and from my understanding, he thought that only GPL plugins could be hosted
> with the plugin repository, but my response was that it only needed to be
> GPL-compatible.
>
> You might get better answers if you weren't so affronting.
>
> On 9/30/07, Travis Snoozy <ai2097 at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:50:09 -0700, "Robin Adrianse"
>> <robin.adr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On 9/30/07, Omry Yadan <omry at yadan.net> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> great.
>>>>
>>>> now, what about non-gpl plugins?
>>>>
>>>> how can those plugins receive the same service?
>>>>
>>>> do we agree that for the sake of the users, it's better to enable
>>>> this functionality for all plugins, regardless of their license?
>>>>         
>>     
>>> It doesn't necesarily have to be GPL. According to the about page[1]
>>> it only has to be GPL-compatible[2].
>>>
>>> [1] http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/
>>> [2]
>>> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses
>>>       
>> You're dodging the point. There will invariably be some plugins that
>> are not hosted with WordPress, for licensing reasons or otherwise.
>> These are currently left out of the loop. Are there plans to allow
>> these plugins some way to notify users of new versions via core? Like,
>> allowing folks to register stub projects with only version information?
>>
>> This doesn't particularly affect me, either, but it *is* a good
>> question from the user's standpoint.
>>
>>
>>
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