[wp-hackers] Disabing a paid extension of our plugin if the licence is not renewed, is doing this too agressive?

[Chip Bennett]

Doing that is absolutely, unequivocally not compatible with the GPL or with
free software philosophy in general.

Disabling the Plugin functionality for failure to pay a recurring
subscription is a use restriction that conflicts with GPL. GNU has also
explicitly stated that an API that is purely a use license API is not GPL
compatible.


On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Nicola Peluchetti <
nicola.peluchetti at gmail.com> wrote:

> We are refactoring our plugin (
> http://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-event-calendar by the way it says
> it hasn't been updated in 2 years, i released 1.10.5 two months ago but i
> will open another thread for this ) to have a basic core and then sell
> extensions.
>
> What i plan to do is disable the extension if the licence is not renewed or
> not entered. This basically means "do not add actions and filters for the
> extension if the licence is not valid". So if the user after one year do
> not renew the licence, i will make a call from our store to  our API and
> set the extension as disabled.
>
> Do you think this is too aggressive?Would you advice against this?
>
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