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The ongoing feud between Wordpress and WP Engine is threatening open-source principles and good name (www.techspot.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Then why does WP engine need access to this specific database?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because Wordpress is also hosting 1000s of plugins that WP engine users can install.

I'm not sure what the license regarding those things is, WP engine could probably just mirror it -

But they basically got locked out of the default ecosystem infrastructure.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I feel like mirroring the plugins would resolve this issue, since the argument seems to be centered on server costs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The argument centering on server costs would be logical, but the actual legal battle going on, and Mullenweg's stated justification behind asking for 8% of WPEngine profit, is claims of misuse of copyrighted names.

Meanwhile the WordPress license explicitly cedes copyright over the name WordPress and the initialism WP.