[wp-hackers] Premium plugin protection

[Brian Layman]

On 12/12/2010 9:24 PM, Andy Charrington-Wilden wrote:
> This started because i was asking for ways to protect my code. Which is actually ludicrous. Let me explain.... I have built on wordpress because i believe in it as a platform, believe it offers value to users and developers and because it was built by people like me! Well.... People who I'd like to be like in a few years anyway! Wordpress is distributed under the gpl. I don't care about the legalities of it all. If nothing else Matt has asked that ALL plugins, themes be distributed under the same license. It's the "right thing to do" to abide by that request. What i am building is totally dependant on wordpress. Sure i could develop a stand alone php platform but how long would that take me? Wordpress has been built and developed governed by what is needed and users and developers feel is best. I can not replicate that. So asking how to protect my code is ludicrous because if the developers of wordpress had done the same i wouldn't be developing the plugin at all!
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> Listening to the discussion between matt and Chris was very very helpful in deciding my stance on this topic. It's not about legalities. It's about what's right.
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> End of sermon. ;-)
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> Thanks.
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> Andy
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