Matt Mullenweg says WP Engine no longer has free WordPress.org access and directs WP Engine customers having trouble with their websites to WP Engine support
disrupting essential work for #WordPress users, agencies, freelancers, and plugin developers. Please read: https://wpenginestatus.com/... Brian Gardner / @bgardner : My heart is breaking. 💔 @pressable...
Red Hat's new source code policy doesn't violate the GPL itself but makes verifying the company's GPL compliance harder, angering the open-source community
Red Hat's new source code policy doesn't violate the GPL itself but makes it harder to verify the company's GPL compliance, angering the open-source community
A (reasonably) condensed version of two weeks' worth of heated GPL argument. — When CentOS announced in 2020 that it was shutting …
GitHub Copilot's use of GPL code for training is not infringement; adopting a maximalist copyright stance will ultimately hurt the Free Software community
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Matt Mullenweg says Automattic will add IAP for WordPress.com plans to WordPress iOS app after Apple froze app updates and demanded the addition
❗ Punctuation matters Paul Thurrott / Thurrott : Apple's At It Again, This Time With WordPress Joe Wituschek / iMore : WordPress says Apple has blocked it from updating its iOS app Surur / MSPoweruser...
Study of ~4M open-source packages: in 2019, 67% relied on use of permissive licenses like Apache, up 3%, while only 33% used restrictive “copyleft” licenses
Thomas Claburn / The Register : Tweets: @satish_babu , @markterrel , and @carnage4life Tweets: Satish Babu / @satish_babu : A survey of four million #FOSS applications reveals that the use of permiss...
Oracle expands audits of Java SE customers and partners for not paying for Advanced Desktop, Suite, and Advanced layers, issues some bills upward of $100K
Thought Java was “free”? Think again (and you owe us $$$ in 2017) — Oracle is massively ramping up audits of Java customers … Tweets: @bodil and @joshbloch Tweets: @bodil : Just extra FYI, Node is ...
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg accuses Wix of copying WordPress for its mobile app, skirting GPL requirements of attribution and public release of code
Anyone who knows me knows that I like to try new things — phones, gadgets, apps. Last week I downloaded the new Wix (closed, proprietary, non-open-sourced, non-GPL) mobile app.
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg accuses Wix of copying WordPress for its mobile app, skirting GPL requirements of attribution and public release of code
Anyone who knows me knows that I like to try new things — phones, gadgets, apps. Last week I downloaded the new Wix (closed, proprietary, non-open-sourced, non-GPL) mobile app.
VMware sued for alleged GPL license infractions
Jeremy Kirk / PC World :