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Is Matt Mullenweg defending WordPress or sabotaging it?

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154 points davidandgoliath | 4 comments | 17 Oct 24 18:53 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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PaulHoule ◴[17 Oct 24 21:15 UTC] No.41873869[source]▶
What I am not seeing in any of the discussions about this is the connection with various database products that used to be Open Source but then changed their licenses because they didn’t like AMZN and the like offering hosted versions of their products without paying anything. It’s a similar situation.
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ceejayoz ◴[17 Oct 24 21:20 UTC] No.41873921[source]▶
Well, they changed their licenses. That's not what happened here.
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1. colechristensen ◴[17 Oct 24 21:36 UTC] No.41874069[source]▶
Wordpress can't because it was a fork of b2/cafelog. You can't un-GPL code you didn't own in the first place.
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2. acdha ◴[17 Oct 24 21:58 UTC] No.41874239[source]▶
How much of that code is still left? I’d think the bigger problem is that they’d have to get everyone who ever contributed to it not as an Automattic employee to agree to a re-license.
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3. philistine ◴[18 Oct 24 01:17 UTC] No.41875516[source]▶
Seeing how Matt has acted in the last couple of days, I wouldn't be surprised if they're just going to yank the license from under the project, and just wait for the lawsuits.
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4. acdha ◴[18 Oct 24 13:14 UTC] No.41879150{3}[source]▶
True. I’ve never seen someone destroy a multi-decade open source community so effectively.