eBook, 87 pages
English language
Published July 1, 2015
A Practical Guide to WordPress and the GPL
Understand the GPL, know what you can and can’t do and get answers to your business-related questions
by Richard Best
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The GPL is fundamental to many things we do with WordPress and its themes and plugins. Large sections of the WordPress community expect one another, as well as theme and plugin shops, to comply with its requirements. Matt Mullenweg, the leading WordPress co-founder, has described the GPL as a bill of rights for WordPress. But how many WordPress users and businesses truly understand the GPL and its practical implications? Many understand its key concepts but the rubber hits the road when we come to apply it in practice to myriad different scenarios. Until now, there has been no single source of information on the practical implications of WordPress and the GPL in all their guises. This ebook fills the gap. Now, in a single place, you can find answers to all manner of issues relating to WordPress and the GPL, from the birth of WordPress and why the GPL applies, …
The GPL is fundamental to many things we do with WordPress and its themes and plugins. Large sections of the WordPress community expect one another, as well as theme and plugin shops, to comply with its requirements. Matt Mullenweg, the leading WordPress co-founder, has described the GPL as a bill of rights for WordPress. But how many WordPress users and businesses truly understand the GPL and its practical implications? Many understand its key concepts but the rubber hits the road when we come to apply it in practice to myriad different scenarios. Until now, there has been no single source of information on the practical implications of WordPress and the GPL in all their guises. This ebook fills the gap. Now, in a single place, you can find answers to all manner of issues relating to WordPress and the GPL, from the birth of WordPress and why the GPL applies, to common GPL-related business questions, to WordPress businesses’ terms of use versus GPL freedoms.