Automattic Hit with Class Action over WP Engine Dispute

Re:Automattic Hit with Class Action over WP Engine Dispute by FireBeyond on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @11:59AM (#43185532)

There are several other issues with this, but "1. entered into a formal agreement with the project’s maintainers"

You are aware (well, maybe you're not, because the WPF certainly has never announced it) that this would be ... difficult, because the same day the WPF was granted ownership over the WP "entity", it granted an exclusive, irrevocable, universal sole commercial license to Automattic.

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Re:Automattic Hit with Class Action over WP Engine Dispute by nostromo on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @12:19PM (#43185777)

Thank you, I didn't know that and it does complicate things dramatically.

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Re:Automattic Hit with Class Action over WP Engine Dispute by noirbot on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @12:39PM (#43186000)

I appreciate your honesty here, but you really should probably read into this a little more before coming in this hot about how justified Matt is. Maybe in principle, what WPE is doing is questionable, but it's certainly looking like Matt has been as much if not more abusive and shady in his pursuit of profiting off of the work of all the other Wordpress contributors, including doing things that are deeply unethical, if not illegal.

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