[wp-hackers] WordPress plugin update bugs

[Robin Adrianse]

It doesn't necesarily have to be GPL. According to the about page[1] it only
has to be GPL-compatible[2].

[1] http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/
[2] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses

On 9/30/07, Omry Yadan <omry at yadan.net> wrote:
>
> great.
>
> now, what about non-gpl plugins?
>
> how can those plugins receive the same service?
>
> do we agree that for the sake of the users, it's better to enable this
> functionality for all plugins, regardless of their license?
>
> (for the record, I don't have much to gain here personally, my own
> plugin got it's own version check mechanism, and it will continue to use
> it in any case).
>
>
>     Omry.
>
>
> Viper007Bond wrote:
>
> > http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/
> > http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/readme.txt
> >
> > ?
> >
> > On 9/30/07, Travis Snoozy <ai2097 at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 05:30:24 -0700, Viper007Bond
> >> <viper at viper007bond.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> #5115: Unable to reproduce. It works fine for me on multiple installs
> >>> on multiple OSes. If this issue was widespread, I'm sure it would
> >>> have been reported much earlier. Sounds like a non-issue or some very
> >>> rarely occurring bug due to server configuration or something.
> >>>
> >> <snip>
> >>
> >> I found the real problem: the top-level title of the readme.txt is
> >> what's used for the check. Argh. Is there -code- for the backend? Or
> >> documentation? Having to reverse-engineer how the darn thing works is
> >> just obnoxious.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Travis
> >>
> >> In Series maintainer
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