Is the project your code? Aren’t there committers that aren’t employed by wordpress.com? Making it the communities code?

Do you really worry about somegenericmunetwork.com doing a wordpress.com competitor or think that you have the same competitive disadvantage that others do that don’t own the .com for the brand?

I know other people can use the code to compete but it seems that wordpress.com is in a better position by a huge factor and has to offer a fraction of the features and service of the nearest competitor. Not that you do, because by being in the lead allows you to afford to out feature the other networks.

It seems that as long as someone doesn’t fork and rebrand wordpress wordpress.com will never truly have to compete with another wordpress mu network. (Accept maybe in a highly customized vertical that has a smaller potential customer base).

Who is the next largest competitor run mu. Edublogs?

Aaronbrazell’s Premium Theme Framework comparison didn’t include WooThemes http://j.mp/9154Yt

PS: Touche’ to WP communism. Let’s eat some Thesis.

Around when this post started the diythemes.com site was compromised and exploit code was inserted in the theme download so anyone who downloaded it before they noticed had a backdoor in their site — this was talked about on Twitter but no public posts I saw.

The code in Thesis 1.8b1 and before we reviewed when looking for GPL violations (and finding them) we noticed a number of insecurities, especially around how the admin pages and options were done. Now that Chris has been notified about these I’m sure they’ll be fixed in the next version. Perhaps that benefit of making his PHP GPL will encourage him to go fully GPL with the entire theme.

When? And in what way?

So, can we all rise above our individual opinions / preferences and create something that will give useful guidance to developers and users alike?

Matt, what I’d like to see is a WordPress plugins / themes “code of conduct”, the creation of which is based on input from the community. It would not be legally binding of course, but it should be possible to set down some guidelines to ensure that the principles of WordPress remain intact whilst also providing room for commercial activity (both code and services).

In my opinion, the main question that needs addressing once and for all is – when should non-GPL code be acceptable in themes and plugins?

Again, any consensus reached would not be legally binding in any way, but I believe it would be very beneficial to everyone.

I think we can do it.

Wasylik refers to the Game Genie, which modifies a running binary and does not interact with source code at all.

Using the GPL license – with Nintendo having nothing but default copyright – there is no doubt that anything which fuses with the source code should strictly follow the GPL.

As a member of the Pirate Party in Sweden, I definitely find it to be a good piece of interview material to use for referral in our copyright debates in Sweden.

It simply does not pay to download premium themes from anyone other than the developers who make them. Then and only then are you assured of getting the most updated and clean files available. Not to mention great support.

Yeah I know Thesis was hacked, first time ever and I assure you last time too.

and yes it caused a pile of 404 errors (happens when you have a boat load of posts with WordPress in the url)

Our current debate aside, I’d like to ask this:

Were you given the option, would you have published WP under a different license or would you have stuck with the GPL?

I don’t ask to pin you in a corner, but because I’m just curious if it affects your reaction to non-GPL producers.

I don’t understand why it was Thesis you went after instead of Headway or a plugin developer. Why always Thesis?

While I don’t really agree with your conclusion, I do appreciate the fact that you have a level head and your analysis is a strong effort.

To be honest, I don’t think what anyone says matters until this is taken to court. Hell, maybe I’ll sue Thesis just to get it over with

Not that you would want to