[wp-hackers] WordPress plugin update bugs

[Omry Yadan]

no harm done.

now that we all understand each other, I hope to get some response from
the Core devs/Matt on this.


Robin Adrianse wrote:

> A few things:
>
> 1. I never said you can't read. I never suggested you couldn't read. I was
> merely stating a point.
>
> 2. Why ask "what about non-gpl plugins" then? A much better question, for
> what I believe is your actual question, would have been "what about plugins
> not hosted on the plugins repository?". This would have been more specific
> and spared this whole exchange.
>
> My point was that if you're concerned about non-GPL plugins, then those can
> *also* be hosted on the WP.org plugins repository, as long as the license is
> GPL-compatible. I wasn't saying anything about whether or not external
> plugins would be able to have the update notification service. My apologies
> for your lack of specific phrasing.
>
> On 9/30/07, Omry Yadan <omry at yadan.net> wrote:
>   
>> I can read, and I did know that any GPL compatible plugins are allowed.
>>
>> you may have no intended to, but you did dodge the point.
>>
>> Travis response to you was exactly what I wanted to say.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Robin Adrianse wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> I'm not dodging the point at all. I was merely responding to Omry, not
>>>       
>> you,
>>     
>>> and from my understanding, he thought that only GPL plugins could be
>>>       
>> hosted
>>     
>>> with the plugin repository, but my response was that it only needed to
>>>       
>> be
>>     
>>> GPL-compatible.
>>>
>>> You might get better answers if you weren't so affronting.
>>>
>>> On 9/30/07, Travis Snoozy <ai2097 at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:50:09 -0700, "Robin Adrianse"
>>>> <robin.adr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> 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?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> You're dodging the point. There will invariably be some plugins that
>>>> are not hosted with WordPress, for licensing reasons or otherwise.
>>>> These are currently left out of the loop. Are there plans to allow
>>>> these plugins some way to notify users of new versions via core? Like,
>>>> allowing folks to register stub projects with only version information?
>>>>
>>>> This doesn't particularly affect me, either, but it *is* a good
>>>> question from the user's standpoint.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> Travis
>>>>
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