Wix and WordPress Explainer

https://meshedinsights.com/2016/10/30/wix-and-wordpress-explainer/

by webmaven • 10 years ago

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webmaven2• 10 years ago

TL/DR: Wix need to release source for the entire Wix app, not just the WordPress editor component they modified, to comply with the terms of the GPL.

chinese_dan• 10 years ago

This entire argument is ridiculous. All of the changes to the editor are released, the Wix team should not be forced to release their entire source code base.

Wordpress is such a pile of garbage, I don't know why anyone would use it anyway. I ran a few of my sites on it and I had to update plugins 3 or 4 times a week to keep up with the latest security flaws.

It does make me realize that most people that believe piracy is not theft (which, I am now going to start calling it theft and stealing in all contexts after the comments I have seen on HN regarding the GNU) only say that because they want free things. It has nothing to do with 'freedom' or principals.

It's the same principal now: you don't want to have to pay for the Wix code base and think they should release it for free.

But, it's not the first time that the tech community continues to be on the wrong side of history. I've done my part though. I warn people about many of these things and get ignored...and then use them to my advantage and make a fortune.

:-)

webmaven2• 10 years ago

The changes to the editor are released, but the license says that if you incorporate the editor into another peice of software (as Wix has done), the combined work must be released as GPL-licensed source code as well.

There are some narrow exceptions, but Wix's use of the editor component doesn't fall under them.

There is a license that says that you only have to release the changes you make to the component itself, it is called the LGPL, and the Wordpress developers could have used it if that was what they wanted. But they released under the GPL, and Wix should abide by the terms of the GPL, or simply not use the code.

Wix and WordPress Explainer

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