[wp-hackers] WordPress plugin update bugs

[Robin Adrianse]

A few things:

1. I never said you can't read. I never suggested you couldn't read. I was
merely stating a point.

2. Why ask "what about non-gpl plugins" then? A much better question, for
what I believe is your actual question, would have been "what about plugins
not hosted on the plugins repository?". This would have been more specific
and spared this whole exchange.

My point was that if you're concerned about non-GPL plugins, then those can
*also* be hosted on the WP.org plugins repository, as long as the license is
GPL-compatible. I wasn't saying anything about whether or not external
plugins would be able to have the update notification service. My apologies
for your lack of specific phrasing.

On 9/30/07, Omry Yadan <omry at yadan.net> wrote:
>
> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Travis
> >>
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