[wp-hackers] Premium plugin protection

Chip Bennett chip at chipbennett.net
Tue Dec 14 04:14:01 UTC 2010


Do a Google search for "Free WordPress Themes" and just take a gander at the
sites that come up. You'll run into all kinds of this crap.

Chip

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Vid Luther <vid at zippykid.com> wrote:

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> sorry for this..but..
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> Ryan Bilesky wrote:
> > I agree I have ran into themes that do that with the footer, in an effort
> to
> > force you to keep their links, so when they do that I will rebuild the
> > footer html myself then remove their links just to spite them lol, but
> hey
> > its GPL I can do that.
>
> Just to be a pedantic ass... it's open source, that's why you can do it,
> not because it's GPL :).
>
> It could be BSD license, or Apache, or PHP, or MIT.. and you could still
> do it... technically speaking of course.
>
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