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Re:Why GitHub Won't Help with Hiring by whatyoucantsay on Friday March 09, 2018 @04:53AM (#16550776)
The GPL is a license. If you don't abide by it, you don't get to download a copy of the software, sell it or create derivative works.

The history of WP itself enforcing the GP is instructive. More recently, Panasonic Avionics has been sued for $100M due to GPL violations.

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Re:Why GitHub Won't Help with Hiring by AstralStorm on Friday March 09, 2018 @10:57AM (#16552585)
GPL does not force you to publish anything. But if you do publish a derivative work (including a binary) you must make sources available on request.

A WordPress-generated website is likely not a derivative work of WordPress source code. (Which is why Affero GPL exists.)

The further specifics depend on GPL version employed.

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Re:Why GitHub Won't Help with Hiring by whatyoucantsay on Friday March 09, 2018 @12:16PM (#16553172)
Ah, I'd been thinking this was a theme. If it's a site generated with WP, that's completely different.

My reaction was largely to the poster's self-righteous attitude about "theft", which has mapped to many GPL violators I've encountered.

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