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Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork

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465 points impish9208 | 2 comments | 11 Jan 25 18:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.652s | source
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blackeyeblitzar ◴[11 Jan 25 19:51 UTC] No.42668473[source]▶
I haven’t followed this whole controversy closely but I don’t see a problem with this personally. It’s aggressive but this person spent most of their life building Wordpress to what it is, giving it dedicated focus for a couple decades. Why should WPEngine or others get to suck up the money from that?
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1. jazzyjackson ◴[11 Jan 25 21:21 UTC] No.42669014[source]▶
Because of the GNU Public License he slapped on there. Matt was free to change the licensing model at any time in Wordpress’s history, so it’s really quite befuddling when people like these contributors encounter a bait and switch, that apparently forking a GPL’d project is against some terms of service.

EDIT: was Wordpress GPL’d all along because it’s a fork of b2/cafelog?

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2. throw646577 ◴[11 Jan 25 22:13 UTC] No.42669351[source]▶
IIRC yes.