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Re:Wordpress.org bans WP Engine, blocks it from accessing it... by YPPH on Friday September 27, 2024 @02:47AM (#41667087)
>But if you're making half a billion in revenue every year on top of someone else's tech, you need to stay involved and contribute back in a very significant way.

Where does the GPL state this requirement? It doesn't.

If WordPress doesn't like this, they should have licenced their software under the AGPL or some other licence with stronger copylefting.

Plenty of large commercial entities use BSD licenced software and make a fortune off the software, with little given in return. Take FreeBSD and the significant commercial operations it drives. They never whinge. Because that's the choice they made, and they stick to their principles.

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Re:Wordpress.org bans WP Engine, blocks it from accessing it... by tsurba on Friday September 27, 2024 @04:33AM (#41667727)
GPL doesn’t, but as others have already said, this discussion is not about that. If they want to keep using someone else’s free server capacity, maybe they should be giving something in return.
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Re:Wordpress.org bans WP Engine, blocks it from accessing it... by InsomniacL on Friday September 27, 2024 @06:17AM (#41668454)
If you're providing your servers for free and include them as the primary update mechanism to an open source project for millions of websites, maybe you shouldn't use that as an extortion mechanism holding millions of websites hostage.

Taking away access to those servers is one thing, doing it without warning putting millions of sites at risk is another.

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