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Note: this is not legal advice. This is my opinion, nothing more. If you want legal advice, hire a lawyer.
How to piss people off with a legal argument
There are no atheists in a foxhole, it’s been said, and there are apparently no agnostics when it comes to the potential application of the [...]
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Update
Please check out the companion piece to this article, Why the GPL/Derivative Work debate doesn’t matter for WordPress themes
Why aren’t WordPress themes automatically covered by the GPL?
There’s been a firestorm brewing in the relatively small world of WordPress premium theme designers, after WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg broadly asserted that themes built to run on the [...]
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We didn’t start the fire
How many people can say they were on the front lines of a revolution? Ten years ago, inspired by some pretty interesting people, I started a little blog. At that time, there were roughly three hundred webloggers in the world, and most of us knew each other. [...]
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I knew that WordPress itself was covered by the GPL. What I didn’t know was that themes, even commercial themes, built to run on WordPress, also fall under the GPL, according to some GPL experts.
In this vid, Matt Mullenweg talks about the benefits of the GPL at some length, even going so [...]
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When Facebook let users pick nicknames for human-friendly URL’s, Wired Magazine’s John Abell didn’t care what name he got. Why? He’s already a got a domain name that he controls… along with unlimited subdomains that he can pojnt to any other location on the internet.
At the end of the day, you won’t know [...]
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It’s amazing what you can learn in the doctor’s waiting room.
Nate was playing with the big toy – the one where you move all the beads back and forth across the wires – and I took a minute to check out a web design question I had, surfing the web on my phone.
I stumbled across [...]
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I’ve been a Dreamhost customer since 2000. In that time, I found a lot to like about the service. It’s been convenient to use, packed with all the features I could want and then some, and seemed fairly reliable.
But if you were to search Twitter today for the word “Dreamhost,” you’d have [...]
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Write for a blog long enough, it’s bound to happen. You see a link in your referrer logs, find something on Google, get an email from a reader… you follow the link, and there it is: your hard work, spread across someone else’s page, used as bait for ad revenue or something worse.
David [...]
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