[wp-forums] Ethical Obligations for WordPress Users

[Jan Dembowski]

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Mark E wrote:

> license.txt and readme might indcate WP is, or was, there at some point.
> Viewing source is 100% positive detection of WP in action.
>
> Mark


*Jan whistles while running a grep command on latest.tar.gz*

$ tar tzf latest.tar.gz | egrep "\.html$|\.txt$" | sed -e 's/^wordpress\///'
license.txt
readme.html
wp-includes/js/swfupload/license.txt
wp-includes/js/plupload/license.txt
wp-includes/js/plupload/changelog.txt
wp-includes/js/tinymce/license.txt
wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/spellchecker/changelog.txt
wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wpeditimage/editimage.html
wp-includes/images/crystal/license.txt
wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/readme.txt
wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/license.txt
wp-content/themes/twentyten/license.txt
wp-content/plugins/akismet/readme.txt

If you find all of these then it's _probably_ a WordPress installation. Or
you could just look at the page's source... ;)

Jan "Too much coffee?" Dembowski