AW: [wp-hackers] Update of non GPL-Plugins (was Plugin licenses)

[Stephen Rider]

On Oct 24, 2008, at 8:10 AM, Xavier Borderie wrote:

> Agreed. Not being hosted on wp.org or GPL'd doesn't a bad plugin  
> make. I'd be strongly in favor of a minimal message indicating that  
> WP cannot notify user of the latest version of such plugin, and that  
> it needs to be updated manually.
>
> Stephen, care to link to your patch, for reference's sake ?


Here it is:
<http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5117>

On Oct 24, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Amy Stephen wrote:

> It might be better to use the word "proprietary" instead of  
> "commercial" since it is non-GPL compatible software that would be  
> the concern.

Actually it's a bad assumption to make.  Many of the un-hosted plugins  
are, in fact, GPL.  The only accurate way to describe the plugins that  
aren't hosted on WP-Extend is:

"Plugins that aren't hosted on WP-Extend"

Stephen

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