I’m thinking about releasing a plugin under the AGPL license. Would this force people to make public the source code of other unrelated parts of their WordPress installations? (I’ve tried to read the AGPL license but I’m not sure.) For example, if they install my AGPL plugin, would they have to make available the source … Read more
What’s the proper way to show attribution when using code taken from another open source WordPress plugin? I’d like to know both in the case of just a particular function, and even for a whole file containing many functions. 1 Answer 1 The plugin should have information in it regarding the license in use. Look … Read more
I want to make a commercial product for resale.. One of the components of the product will be a wordpress theme. The theme will be a heavily reworked variant of a GPL licenses theme. So, I understand that as the theme is GPL, that means it must carry the GPL license, even after it is … Read more
Can I sell a theme I developed using TwentyTen 3 Answers 3 Short answer: Yes. Longer answer: Just because something is released as open-source/under the GPL doesn’t mean you can’t put it behind a paywall. All WP themes have to be licensed GPL if you distribute them, because they are derived from the WordPress code, … Read more
How to remove the: {site} / Proudly powered by WordPress in bottom of generated pages using twentysixteen (2016) theme on version 4.5.2? Would prefer if this change was not affected by later updates to the theme. Note, that I could not make the previous answers work, for example through modification of style.css by addition of: … Read more
I read that all themes on the wordpress.org site are GPL compatible. So can I download the theme, edit it and use it? Can I remove the links that point to the theme developer’s website? Does the GPL license allow this? 4 Answers 4 Yes. Use it. Edit it however you like. Redistribute it, modified … Read more
When I created a GitHub project I chose None. How can I now add a GPL license to my already added project? 5 Answers 5
Apologies in advance if I meander in this question, I am trying to grasp my brain around the different licensing models and yes, I know most of you are not lawyers. I am developing a WordPress Plugin that I intend on publishing a free version to the WordPress Plugin Directory and a premium version sold … Read more
I have own WP plugin under GPL2 license as need for WP, but now I wanna add some 3rd party code for directory listing and this code is under MIT license. What I need to do, that make all right and use this code in my plugin? 1 Answer 1 yes, you can include Expat … Read more
The Plugin developer center says “Your plugin must be GPLv2 Compatible.”. But I found that the Topsy plugin is under GPLv3. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/rms-why-gplv3.html states that GPLv2 and GPLv3 are incompatible. So should this be allowed? I want to use some code from the Topsy plugin. Then, should I release my plugin under GPLv2 or GPLv3 ?? … Read more
