On one of the populair blogs around webdesign and wordpress (can't
recall which one) it was called that although the 'general agreement'
is that WordPress stuff all needs to be GPL, the particular author of
the post pointed out that it has never been tested in a real case.
Basicly it came down to the fact that no copyrightable source code
from the actuall WordPress-source was 'copied' or 'altered' into the
plugin.
The only similarity is that a few variable names and function calls
match with variable and function definitions in the WordPress core.
I do think then if/when it comes down to a lawsuit for either WP or
MW, it will most likely become a case-scenario that will apply to both.
-- Krinkle
Op 23 jul 2010, om 08:10 heeft Robert Leverington het volgende
geschreven:
In the past it has been concluded that extensions do
not need to be
licensed under the GPL, and I think that is the general agreement at
the moment.
Robert
On 2010-07-22, Andrew Fitzgerald wrote:
Saw an article mentioned on Slashdot about
Wordpress themes and
plugins
being required to be disributed under the GPL because they are
derivative of
Wordpress. Is this also true for Mediawiki extensions and skins?
It seems
like the arguements for why Wordpress themes and plugins also apply
to MW.
Article:
http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2010/07/17/why-wordpress-themes-are-deriva…
Thanks for any insight
Andrew Fitzgerald
http://wiki.swiftlytilting.com
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