On one of the populair blogs around webdesign and wordpress (can't recall which one) it was called that although the 'general agreement' is that WordPress stuff all needs to be GPL, the particular author of the post pointed out that it has never been tested in a real case.
Basicly it came down to the fact that no copyrightable source code from the actuall WordPress-source was 'copied' or 'altered' into the plugin. The only similarity is that a few variable names and function calls match with variable and function definitions in the WordPress core. I do think then if/when it comes down to a lawsuit for either WP or MW, it will most likely become a case-scenario that will apply to both. -- Krinkle Op 23 jul 2010, om 08:10 heeft Robert Leverington het volgende geschreven: > In the past it has been concluded that extensions do not need to be > licensed under the GPL, and I think that is the general agreement at > the moment. > > Robert > > On 2010-07-22, Andrew Fitzgerald wrote: >> Saw an article mentioned on Slashdot about Wordpress themes and >> plugins >> being required to be disributed under the GPL because they are >> derivative of >> Wordpress. Is this also true for Mediawiki extensions and skins? >> It seems >> like the arguements for why Wordpress themes and plugins also apply >> to MW. >> >> Article: >> http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2010/07/17/why-wordpress-themes-are-derivative-of-wordpress/ >> >> Thanks for any insight >> Andrew Fitzgerald >> http://wiki.swiftlytilting.com >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
