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We did.

• whatyoucantsay 9y ago
  Did you also report the employer's "theft", as you put it, of WordPress's GPL'd code?
  • xref 9y ago
    that's just...that's just not at all what GPL is
    • whatyoucantsay 9y ago
      The GPL is a license. If you don't abide by it, you don't get to download a copy of the software, sell it or create derivative works. The history of WP itself enforcing the GP is instructive. More recently, Panasonic Avionics has been sued for $100M due to GPL violations.
      • AstralStorm 9y ago
        GPL does not force you to publish anything. But if you do publish a derivative work (including a binary) you must make sources available on request. A WordPress-generated website is likely not a derivative work of WordPress source code. (Which is why Affero GPL exists.) The further specifics depend on GPL version employed.
        • whatyoucantsay 9y ago
          Ah, I'd been thinking this was a theme. If it's a site generated with WP, that's completely different. My reaction was largely to the poster's self-righteous attitude about "theft", which has mapped to many GPL violators I've encountered.