[wp-forums] Was I right in closing this?

[Michael B]

>
> On a side note...  Is Gravity Forms GPL or commercial anyways? Because
> seriously, upon reflection I wonder if that topic owner had a point...
>
> According to http://www.gravityforms.com/terms-and-conditions/ it is
> licensed GPL. But you can't get it without paying? Seems kinda sketch, as my
> teens would say...
>   
Certainly not the place for a license war, but I don't think anything
precludes a plugin author from licensing a plugin as GPL, and then
charging for some kind of support cost to download the plugin. A GPL
license wouldn't prevent anyone from giving that plugin away though.

Now whether wp.org wants to support people asking for/sharing free
copies of a paid plugin is another story. I'd lean towards those type
threads being closed/deleted as has been done.


But again, not intending to flame that fire, it's been done adnaseum on
other lists, forums, blog posts…

~miklb

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>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Micah Cooksey <micah at ronnykathy.com>wrote:
>
>   
>> Ok, good.  just wanted to make sure 'cause I'm new to this moderating thing
>> :)
>> _____________________
>>
>> Micah Cooksey
>> micah at ronnykathy.com
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>>
>>
>> On Feb 23, 2010, at 10:19 AM, Chris Kasten wrote:
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>>  On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Micah Cooksey <micah at ronnykathy.com
>>     
>>>> wrote:
>>>>         
>>>  http://wordpress.org/support/topic/365430
>>>       
>>>> I don't want to close topics at random, but I didn't think this one was
>>>> benefitting anything.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> A bunch of bumps and an out-right request for help stealing software?
>>> Yeah,
>>> I think you don't need to second-guess it too much :-)
>>>
>>> I might have just deleted the entire topic, to be honest.
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