[wp-hackers] Plugin license question

[Joost de Valk]

On Mar 23, 2008, at 11:37 PM, Viper007Bond wrote:

> And even if it wasn't, I don't believe there's really anything  
> stopping one
> from editing it for their own purposes.

I was planning on re-releasing it though ;) nah, just kiddin'

On another note: these link backs are incredibly annoying, every other  
new plugin author seems to feel that just because he hacked a few  
lines of code together, he deserves a link back to his site... Would  
be good if the wordpress.org rules prevented you from doing that.

> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Dan Coulter <dan at dancoulter.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Joost de Valk  
>> <joost at joostdevalk.nl>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> A plugin has to be GPL compatible to get into the WordPress.org  
>>> plugin
>>> repository right? So, if a plugin is in there, and there's no  
>>> license
>>> attached to it, can you safely assume it's GPL?
>>
>>
>> It either has to be GPL or a less restrictive license, like FreeBSD  
>> or
>> MIT-style.
>>
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