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

[Daniel]

So the plug-in can even get taken out of the repo.

On 3/4/14, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
> 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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Daniel Fenn