[wp-hackers] Licensing and Copyright Issues with the Hello Dolly Plugin

[Pete Mall]

>
> May I point to the fact - and that's important to any wordpress developer -
> that since the GPL has terminated for the wordpress package (incl. the use
> of the SVN and beta versions), all developers who participate in beta do not
> have a right to aquire nor to edit the files of wordpress unless they are in
> full compliance again.


You state this as a fact... Where did you get your law degree? If you don't
have a law degree, where is the professional opinion of a lawyer on this?
Better yet, what court ruled on the termination of the GPL for WordPress?

Until you can provide me the above info, these are nothing but your personal
opinions.

Cheers!
Pete

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:44 AM, hakre <hanskrentel at yahoo.de> wrote:

> ----- Ursprüngliche Mail ----
>
> > Von: Andrew Nacin <wp at andrewnacin.com>
> > An: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> > Gesendet: Donnerstag, den 16. Dezember 2010, 4:27:17 Uhr
> > Betreff: Re: [wp-hackers] Licensing and Copyright Issues with the Hello
> Dolly
> >Plugin
> >
> > Bottom line:
> >
> > We are going to address this at the conclusion of the 3.1  cycle.
> > [...]
> > Stop distracting us further. In return, yes, we are aware  this needs to
> be
> > discussed, and you can hold me to that come  January.
> > [...]
>
> May I point to the fact - and that's important to any wordpress developer -
> that
> since the GPL has terminated for the wordpress package (incl. the use of
> the SVN
> and beta versions), all developers who participate in beta do not have a
> right
> to aquire nor to edit the files of wordpress unless they are in full
> compliance
> again.
>
> So just before anyone is actively encouraging other developers to violate
> the
> GPL, I can only give the following tip:
>
>     If you care about your rights with the wordpress software,
>    remove the Hello Dolly plugin. Or remove only the Hello Dolly
>    lyrics in  there if you want to keep the plugin.
>
> Source: http://wp.me/pLEEp-mPb
>
> > For now, help us by trying to break Beta  2.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Nacin
>
> You would - as you have commit rights - save other hackers a lot of
> headaches by
> removing the copyright infringing lyrics from the code-base until the
> situation
> has been clarified.
>
> This would be helpful for any person participating in the beta, so to say,
> get
> things moving forward.
>
> Otherwise you're getting closer to asking developers to ignore and violate
> the
> GPL than to ensure that the GPL gets properly applied on the code-base.
>
> You should care less about shortly interrupting some release scheduling
> (which
> is behind anyway according to jane) but to be thankful that such finally
> got
> reported and the attention it deserves. Keep in mind that the copyright
> infringement has been already reported 11 month ago. You know the ticket as
> you
> closed it.
>
> -- hakre
>
> http://hakre.wordpress.com/
>
>
>
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