Leland Fiegel has a must-read roundup of GPL…

Leland Fiegel has a must-read roundup of GPL myths with easy to understand explanations. it’s nice to see these points detailed by a WordPress theme shop owner, and anyone producing products with the GPL license should give this a read over. I’ve spent a shocking amount of time researching various legal areas around WordPress, and Leland’s post is…

Easy Content Types for sale

Pippin Williamson is selling his Easy Content Types plugin, after five years of managing it under Pippin’s Plugins. Easy Content Types spent two years on Code Canyon before he moved it to his personal site. It still sells pretty well, and he states on the post, “the plugin has averaged 29 sales per month and…

Discouraging public redistribution of commercial themes and plugins

Richard Best did a poll asking people a series of questions regarding redistribution of commercial themes and plugins. Since he did the work, I’d request you go to his site for the full poll results, but this paragraph alone is interesting enough for this post: A majority of those who took the poll – 76…

WordPress plugin repo forking policy clarified

Mike Epstein clarified a policy for the WordPress.org plugin repo this morning, based on some recent issues that cropped up (likely the Elegant Themes / LeadPages thing yesterday). Basically, GPL-compatible unchanged copies are not allowed as part of an “above and beyond” policy: While the GPL and it’s compatible licenses allow for forking, we have an…

Brewing fuss over a fork of an Elegant Themes popup plugin

Folks are making a bit of a fuss about a commercial plugin — Bloom, a lead generation and popup plugin — getting forked and released for free. It all started with an Elegant Themes tweet: Looks like @LeadPages took our plugin, replaced our logo in their “fork” and put it up for free on http://wordpress.org 🙁 LeadPages,…

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