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pointlessone10/12/20241 replyview on HN

Do they use a product? WordPress’ license is GPL. However unfair it might feel they can use it under the terms of the license. Matt has chose the license and has to live with that choice. He’s doing basically the same thing Redis/Elastic Search/Mongo did but worse. He wants the money without getting the relicensing backlash. Which, I’d argue, is even worse than those other instances.


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satvikpendem10/12/2024

He can't relicense as WordPress is a fork of B2 which is GPL. That's one reason why he's trying to extort instead.

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