Comment on Why GitHub Won't Help with HiringparentComments−whatyoucantsay8yDid you also report the employer's "theft", as you put it, of WordPress's GPL'd code?−xref8ythat's just...that's just not at all what GPL is−whatyoucantsay8yThe 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.−AstralStorm8yGPL 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.−whatyoucantsay8yAh, 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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Did you also report the employer's "theft", as you put it, of WordPress's GPL'd code?
that's just...that's just not at all what GPL is
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.
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.
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.