[wp-hackers] Wordpress.org plugin listing admin contact information?

[Michael D Adams]

On Nov 18, 2007, at 10:17 PM, Otto wrote:

> It has come to the attention of the WordPress support forums that one
> of the plugins listed on the plugins page at wordpress.org has
> violated the terms of being listed there.
>
> Specifically, this plugin:
> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mailing-list/
>
> Is not actually available there. If you examine the plugin's code
> itself, you'll see it's little more than an advertisement pointing to
> the actual plugin at http://tribulant.com/ , where it is commercially
> available. It is also *not* GPL, which is the main requirement for
> being listed at wordpress.org.
>
> This amounts to spamming of the plugins list, basically. The plugin
> needs to be delisted, however I'm uncertain who the correct contact
> is... who should this type of thing be emailed to for future cases?
>
> Forum discussion on the topic can be found here:
> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/142301
>
> -Otto

Thanks for pointing this out.  I've temporarily suspended the plugin  
and have contacted the author asking for clarification on his  
licensing and intent to host the full plugin in the SVN repo.

Mike