Displaying 1 To 19 Of 19 Comments Thesis Goes Split Licensed – Hell Freezes Over WPTavern doesn’t define itself as personal blog, it defines itself as community portal. By giving such one-sided coverage it contributes to increasing tension on subject, not mitigating it. Of course it’s Jeffro’s editorial choice. But it also hard to take such post as on behalf of “warm and inviting community”. Speaking out against the core team’s decisions doesn’t make you an outcast or anything like that in the community. Tell that to Chris Pearson. :) He must be feeling verrry welcomed in community these days. » Posted By Rarst On July 24, 2010 @ 2:44 PM I didn’t say the word spirit. It’s my opinion that if a developer creates a theme or plugin that is not licensed under the GPL like the platform it works on and is used by millions of people, that is a slap in the face to everyone who has contributed to the project. Say what!? I have a publicly available WP plugin, that is really plain PHP class, packaged as WP plugin for convenience alone and not derivative by any stretch of imagination. Telling me how to license work that is mine and mine alone is slap to my face. The platform argument is “spirit” argument. What I don’t understand is why you are for the idea of themes and plugins to have a proprietary license within an open and free environment. From my perspective, you’ve been fighting for the rights of developers to license their work however they please, regardless of the license the platform they are building on or around has. Why is that or am I missing the boat? Why only proprietary? What about GPL-incompatible open licenses? Are they evil as well? Should developer of theme I use at my blog be slandered and threatened to be sued because he released theme under Creative Commons? Supposedly he is just as guilty, just as bastard and just as “breaking law”. Why go against the grain when you can go with the flow where everyone is happy. Why are there different religions? Countries? It is easy to say “I am right, everyone agree with me”, it is hard to prove that. And clearly WordPress project has some issues in proving department, or we’d all be that happy content bunch in the flow. » Posted By Rarst On July 23, 2010 @ 4:24 AM @Jeffro - It only became REALLY interesting once it was discovered chunks of core WordPress code were discovered within the theme which turned it into a clear copyright violator. Seventy bucks (or how much is it, don’t remember) for a copy of Thesis. Several hours for one of Automattic employees to do audit and find that code. At any point during those three years. Either they didn’t think/bother (which is lame). Or code didn’t matter at all and what mattered was to get Thesis in tight place with propaganda. Before I get asked I use propaganda as (again according to wiktionary) “A concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behavior of large numbers of people.” And try to convince me this wasn’t what Matt did that day on Twitter. You know what impression about Automattic and community really stuck in my head? It’s when I had (repeatedly) issues with Akismet (that were later confirmed and fixed by Akismet support) and what reaction I got for sharing them on forum was Otto calling me a spammer. I feel echo of this again and again. It doesn’t matter if you are right, it matters if you say good things about WordPress and Automattic and Matt. And if you are not – you are meat to be righteously chewed. Anyway rehashing my (somewhat lame) gripes probably accomplishes nothing (except getting me through Friday morning). :) I hope I explained well enough my issue with this post. And that when I am being snide and ugly it is not because I get off it. It is in response to people that are being that way in my address. » Posted By Rarst On July 23, 2010 @ 3:34 AM @Jeffro - I still don’t think Matt launched any scandals against Chris or any other individual. As I saw this latest Thesis/GPL mess unraveling it was absolutely started by Matt that out of the blue shot multiple tweets dissing Thesis security (at first) and it being “scammy” (later). Offering to buy anyone other theme if they move from Thesis (even more later). Don’t remember if law breaking allegation where on Twitter or somewhere in comments. Obviously I am not aware of any private communication that might have taken place, but as I saw it this was what made Twitter explode that day. I do not know what exactly made Chris switch to split-license. But Matt said that they tried to influence him and it wasn’t working. Apparently turning situation in cluster**** did. I would be amazed if Matt managed to convince Chris and they came to agreement. I am not amazed with Matt being unable to convince Chris and degrading situation to dissing Thesis, “poaching” (not sure it is a good word, Chris used it) its clients and inflaming situation to the point some people started to get uncomfortable for using Thesis. » Posted By Rarst On July 23, 2010 @ 3:10 AM @Jeffro - As first definition in wiktionary “scandal (plural scandals) Any answer to my PS question? I am honestly interested in it. » Posted By Rarst On July 23, 2010 @ 2:44 AM @Mark. - I had been using WordPress roughly as long as you. Two years into it I am torn between being aware with what’s going on in community department (which makes sense to have a good understanding of stuff) and feeling that I should just disregard that mess of repeated scandals in favor of just silently using WP for my needs. Doesn’t help at all that I have some opinions not in line with those of “WordPress core team”, including themes as mandatory derivative works. » Posted By Rarst On July 23, 2010 @ 2:32 AM @Jeffro - I am upset because I think this post gives extremely one-sided coverage of the issue via wording, interpretation and suggested linked posts (Ben Cook used some nicely fitting and colorful words to describe one of those on Twitter). I am upset by this post being a concentrated cocktail of what is (as for me) core problem of WordPress&GPL&derivatives situation – turning vague legal issue into mess of political bs and superseding facts with opinions. From where I stand the only fault of Chris I see in this situation is that Thesis had actual WP code included (which is something he did not do personally, but missed – it was done by one of past developers, as I understood from tweets and such). Which was resolved promptly and in line with Matt’s position on licenses. ( Still a bastard. Kiiiiick! ) Naive userbase that doesn’t care about licenses as opposed to educated community of open source supporters? Absolutely most of WordPress userbase is probably naive and doesn’t care. As I said on forum recently – several geeks on dedicated site are not user base. PS Jeffro, personally do you consider ME menace and GPL-opposing force? I think you had some time and seen enough of my forum posts / tweets / whatever to determine where I stand. » Posted By Rarst On July 23, 2010 @ 2:28 AM @Mark. - Chris may have shown true colors. But somehow Matt’s colors in this situation are conveniently omitted. Gloating over Thesis security issues (compare to holy rage when someone points at WP security), openly calling Chris criminal, etc. For the record I am not “supporter” of Chris, I have no affiliation with him or Thesis. But don’t make it sound like the whole community is being stood over with a big stick and every developer who wants to venture forth and cut his or her own path is going to eventually fall victim to a similar fate. I am not even a developer (beside some snippets and answering simple questions here and there) and I get my share of name-calling and being labeled as “against GPL”, etc. I make it sound exactly how I feel – that having personal opinion is treated like grave offense in “WP community”. Anyway, I should go cool down. This post put me in very foul mood. » Posted By Rarst On July 23, 2010 @ 2:07 AM Great day indeed! Leadership via slander and threat of lawsuit prevailed over yet another developer. He did everything we wanted, but he is still a bastard. He wins a bonus kick. Now let’s try to go for a week without another scandal!* *not happening Sigh. » Posted By Rarst On July 23, 2010 @ 1:20 AM Six Revisions On Missing Features In WordPress I agree a bit with pagination… Sure there are awesome plugins for that, but I see all the time blogs that don’t bother with that minimal effort and stick with stupid default next/previous setup. Not that complex pagination is desperately needed, but native definitely sucks. And of course search is verrrrry strange creature in WP. @Ipstenu Default theme every year is supposedly a plan for future WP releases. Since 2010 just landed we will see in a year I guess. :) » Posted By Rarst On July 1, 2010 @ 3:03 PM 14 Things To Consider When Choosing A Webhost For Your WordPress Powered Site @Ipstenu – Ehm… I have nothing against shared hosting… I was only commenting on two of parameters, suggested in post. » Posted By Rarst On June 30, 2010 @ 1:25 PM Human recommendations are often very biased because of affiliate programs. Hosts that throw enough money around can have tons of glowing “fans”, while providing terrible service. I learned to look for specific experiences – had issue X, was fixed in Y hours/days and support was Z nice. These are facts and not fluff for money. Redundancy doesn’t seem like feature common to shared hosting at all. If server is down – it is down. » Posted By Rarst On June 30, 2010 @ 1:09 AM Would You Take WordPress Advice From A Non WordPress Using Site? Why not?.. btw I am not likely to take advice from many sites that do run WordPress. :) It’s not about site, it’s about author having brains and actual WP experience. » Posted By Rarst On April 29, 2010 @ 1:03 AM Use The Media Library Or Hand Code? I never really got media library part… I am writing my posts in Windows Live Writer from day one and it was just natural to drag and drop image there and have it neatly uploaded to separate directory per post. When I hit some limitations of hand code approach I just added some custom code snippets that do two things for me: It isn’t really duplicate of media library functionality but it covers my needs for now, so why bother with more. » Posted By Rarst On April 19, 2010 @ 5:06 PM WordPress RSS Parser SimplePie Ceases Development I was happy when SimplePie was included in WP (Magpie is bit obsolete). But that aura of dusty “next great version is around the corner (for XX months already)” promised issues. So now we have two unmaintained feed parsers in WP… Third time’s a charm? :) » Posted By Rarst On September 29, 2009 @ 1:15 AM Sitepoint Interview With Matt Mullenweg I think themes are a little bit different from plug-ins in terms that… a theme is more like the basis for designing your web site and it’s kind of the building block, where a plug-in is often just one smaller part of it. So honestly I feel like there’s a better commercial case for themes than there is for plug-ins. Also, if you look at the direction of the commercial theme page, they’re not really charging for the downloads, less and less; they’re more charging for the support and the customization and work around it. I think plug-ins totally can go that direction as well. So plugin developers should follow model that is clearly less viable for them… Why exactly? » Posted By Rarst On September 5, 2009 @ 8:50 AM Media RSS The Next Core Integrated Plugin? Blogs that have plenty of (good) images can benefit from such function. For example MediaRSS feed can be used in wallpaper changer app. It can also be used in syndication for cross-promoting content. I am including my latest stumble in my footer with graphic thumbnail and it would be so much easier if feed was MediaRSS. Other than such specific uses my guess is rest of bloggers couldn’t care less. :) PS oh and I wish before this fancy stuff someone fixed rss.php in WordPress to support enclosures » Posted By Rarst On February 1, 2009 @ 11:02 AM WPTavern Celebrates Thank A Plugin Author Day! Impressive list, quite a few of those I use and some that I should check out. :) By the way Wp 2.7 has native highlight for author comments, it adds CSS class for that. » Posted By Rarst On January 29, 2009 @ 11:33 AM Change Those FeedSmith FeedBurner Settings According to Google old feeds will stay redirected to new one. Still worth changing to remove extra steps. I’ve setup “my brand” feature from the start so I have to change that instead (and leaves me escape route from Feedburner just in case). @Ryan Yep, Feedburner belongs to Google but they recently started big show of moving from “old” Feedburner to “new” Feedburner tightly integrated with Google loging and rest of services. Beats me why they couldn’t just upgrade Feedburner in-place. Maybe Google wants to kill self-sufficient brand and make it own or whatever. Offtopic – somewhat weird order of fields in comment form? I had almost submitted with my email in URL field Rarst’s last blog post..Did you know Internet has an archive? » Posted By Rarst On January 26, 2009 @ 2:09 AMComments Posted By Rarst
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