[wp-hackers] When shady people resell your work...

[Chip Bennett]

"...even if our license agreement explicitly says that you cannot include
any of our premium add-ons
within a free or commercial theme or plugin or other package"

So your commercial WordPress Plugin add-ons - add-ons for a Plugin hosted
by WPORG, and that are promoted on
WPORG<https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-slimstat/>- are not distributed
under GPL?


On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Dino Termini <dino at duechiacchiere.it>wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> we were recently informed that someone was selling our plugin (available
> for free on WordPress.org of course), WP SlimStat.
>
> While this is allowed by the GPL license, they re-branded it as Keyword
> Swarm and removed all the references to the original author.
>
> On top of that, they purchased all our premium add-ons and bundled them
> with their package, even if our license agreement explicitly says that you
> cannot include any of our premium add-ons
> within a free or commercial theme or plugin or other package.
>
> This will end up damaging not just our small group, but the entire
> community around our plugin. If the already little revenue stream is
> choked, we won't be able to invest our time to improve WP SlimStat, which
> is sad.
>
> So I thought I would come to this list to ask for opinions.
>
> Thank you,
> Dino.
>
>
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