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A comment on Dear Matt Mullenweg: An Open Letter from Wix.com’s CEO Avishai Abrahami. Parent comment

Re:Dear Matt Mullenweg: An Open Letter from Wix.com’s CEO Av... by ceejayoz on Saturday October 29, 2016 @09:04PM (#12827475)
That gets a little iffy, though. If your custom plugin distributes CSS/JS/HTML to browsers, does that count?
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Re:Dear Matt Mullenweg: An Open Letter from Wix.com’s CEO Av... by delinka on Saturday October 29, 2016 @09:20PM (#12827540)
If your custom plugin distributes its output, no. Generally speaking, the output of a GPL'd program is not also subject to the GPL (quines notwithstanding.)
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Re:Dear Matt Mullenweg: An Open Letter from Wix.com’s CEO Av... by ceejayoz on Saturday October 29, 2016 @09:51PM (#12827649)
WordPress's JS (and I'd argue its CSS/HTML) is much more integral part of the code for the system than mere "output", IMO.
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Re:Dear Matt Mullenweg: An Open Letter from Wix.com’s CEO Av... by delinka on Saturday October 29, 2016 @10:28PM (#12827803)
Indeed. I was hoping to elicit some clarification and left out some of my own: if JS, CSS & HTML are part of the GPL'd product, I'd agree that those parts qualify as being 'distributed' to users.
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