{"id":16186,"date":"2016-10-30T19:29:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T23:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=16186"},"modified":"2016-10-30T19:33:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T23:33:21","slug":"the-price-of-gpl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/30\/the-price-of-gpl\/","title":{"rendered":"The Price of GPL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ma.tt\/2016\/10\/wix-and-the-gpl\/\">Matt Mullenweg<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/ma.tt\/2016\/10\/wix-and-the-gpl\/\"><p>If I were being charitable, I&rsquo;d say, &ldquo;The app&rsquo;s editor is based on the WordPress mobile app&rsquo;s editor.&rdquo; If I were being honest, I&rsquo;d say that Wix copied WordPress without attribution, credit, or following the license. The custom icons, the class names, even the bugs.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=12828814\">this Hacker News comment put it<\/a>, &ldquo;Open source is not a swap meet; you can&rsquo;t violate a license if you voluntarily release some other code to make up for it.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/bitsplitting.org\/2016\/10\/30\/the-price-of-gpl\/\">Daniel Jalkut<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/bitsplitting.org\/2016\/10\/30\/the-price-of-gpl\/\">\n<p>Many developers understand, and view the price of GPL as perfectly justified, while others (myself included) find it unacceptable. So what am I supposed to do? Not use any GPL source code at all in any of my proprietary products? Exactly. Because the price of GPL is too much for me, and I don&rsquo;t steal source code.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Mullenweg: If I were being charitable, I&rsquo;d say, &ldquo;The app&rsquo;s editor is based on the WordPress mobile app&rsquo;s editor.&rdquo; If I were being honest, I&rsquo;d say that Wix copied WordPress without attribution, credit, or following the license. The custom icons, the class names, even the bugs. [&#8230;] As this Hacker News comment put it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,26,991,96,1117],"class_list":["post-16186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-iosapp","tag-open-source-software","tag-web","tag-wordperfect"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16191,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16186\/revisions\/16191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}