It's unfortunate that WordPress.org has to be replaced, it requiring plugins to be gplv2 licensed has forced the ecosystem be almost fully open source.
Doubt this is going to be the case if FAIR takes over.
Has that ever actually been tested though? Ultimately, to work, a plugin only needs to call a handful of WP functions, if at all -- hard to argue it's a derivative work, just because it can be used _with_ WP. Is grep a derivative work of bash because you can use bash to execute grep?
Something like the following would be a valid plugin, but it doesn't directly or indirectly use _any_ code by WP. It's only executed by WP. I don't believe that it would be considered a derivative work of WP, because that file would happily run without WP as well.
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: My Plugin
Version: 0.1
*/
if($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] === "/my-url") {
// do something interesting, use curl to fetch some content
}
I've always been confused by this assertion, too. It's often the justification for privacy of paid plugins, too.
In addition to your example, I can imagine a very defensible scenario where a plugin is "standalone" with a shim layer to connect to WordPress (and maybe other CMSes, too).
Yeah, the infectious nature can hardly infect a third party software, even if the shim itself would be infected.
The one case I just remembered where it was remotely challenged was Thesis [1], but Automattic chose to throw money into bullying the challenger rather than going after the alleged license violation.
This is going to be a life changer for youtubers and creatives who need background songs for their videos, you can now create tailored songs for whatever you need.
Its great, however it sucked in other languages, sounding like a foreigner trying to speak like a local.
speaking for myself, I am happy to make that trade. As long as I get unrestricted access to latest one. Heck, most of my code now is written by gemini anyway haha.
you don't need it, it's just a phone. Yeah maybe now, but in two years when the pixel is shitting itself you will understand.
If GrapheneOS dies, that's probably it for me with pixels. The only advantage left is how cheap you can get a new flagship pixel on the gray market.
reply