[wp-hackers] Re-Selling (your) free plugins

[Andy Charrington]

As far as i'm concerned he's breaking the biggest rule of them all. The
DBADH rule. Dont Be A DickHead rule

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Nathaniel Taintor <
goldenapplesdesign at gmail.com> wrote:

> FWIW, the guy has already changed his terms and is now offering his bundle
> for free with no restrictions.
>
> This kind of thing happens fairly common, and as sleazy as it seems, is
> probably not really a bad thing. As the saying goes, "any well-developed
> ecosystem has its parasites" and it doesn't hurt the overall ecosystem.
>
> Best,
> Than
>
> Nathaniel Taintor, Designer/Developer
> *Golden Apples Design*
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>
>
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Braydon <ronin at braydon.com> wrote:
>
> > In section 4. and in 6.b) detail the specifics of selling works, as far
> as
> > I have read:
> > http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/**gpl.html<
> http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>
> >
> > tl;dr You can charge anything for verbatim conveying, and for non-source
> > conveying, a source distribution should be included at no more than the
> cost
> > to physically perform.
> >
> > It would be worth contacting the Software Freedom Law Center over this,
> not
> > sure if Automattic has a relationship already with them....
> > http://www.softwarefreedom.**org/ <http://www.softwarefreedom.org/>
> >
> >
> > On 08/01/2011 10:01 AM, Chip Bennett wrote:
> >
> >> Note that re-selling GPL plugins is perfectly acceptable per the terms
> of
> >> the license. (The GPL explicitly allows for selling GPL-licensed works.)
> >>
> >> However, in this case, the GPL is violated in that the person selling
> this
> >> compilation claims that purchasers cannot give the compilation away for
> >> free, but can only sell it for an equal ($9) or greater value.
> >>
> >> If he were to remove that restriction, as far as I can tell, he would be
> >> in
> >> complete compliance with GPL.
> >>
> >> Chip
> >>
> >> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:54 AM, 24/7<24-7 at gmx.net>  wrote:
> >>
> >>  I got pointed to a thread on "Warrior Forums" (some online marketing
> >>> forum),
> >>> where someone (overnight211) states that you will gain "100% private
> >>> label
> >>> rights" on Plugins like "WP-DB Manager", "WP-Print" (and about 100
> more)
> >>> with a purchase of his plugin bundle. He also says that it's a "Perfect
> >>> Product to Send To Your List Re-branded with your affliliate links". At
> >>> some
> >>> other comments you can read stuff like the following: "I have *Full
> >>> Master
> >>> Resale Rights* and Each One of the Plugins Listed Above Has Resale
> >>> Privileges attached to them. Because of the Master Rights, I have the
> >>> each
> >>> developers *expressed permission* to offer *Private Label Rights* to
> All
> >>> Who
> >>> Purchase WP Million Dollar Plugins".
> >>>
> >>> I don't comment on this, but want to encourage you to this yourself
> right
> >>> at
> >>> the Warrior Forum. Maybe you're one of the plugin authors and want to
> >>> contact him personally or through your law suit (or your friendly local
> >>> hooligan team). I hope Automattic will jump in on some point too.
> Here's
> >>> the
> >>> Link<
> >>> http://www.warriorforum.com/**warrior-forum-classified-ads/**
> >>> 424733-finally-money-making-**wp-plugins-instanly-turn-your-**
> >>> boring-websites-into-35-625-**yr-atm-machines.html<
> http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-forum-classified-ads/424733-finally-money-making-wp-plugins-instanly-turn-your-boring-websites-into-35-625-yr-atm-machines.html
> >
> >>> .
> >>>
> >>> Wish you best,
> >>> Kaiser.
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