How Not to Monetize WPMu
Jim Groom,
bavatuesdays,
Feb 06, 2009
Yesterday's post on how edublogs makes its money has resulted in a series of posts on whether what they're doing is allowed under the GPL, the license under which WordPress is distributed. What set it off was this comment on the original article: "Long story short, it's fine to sell things, including exactly what you're doing on the site today, but insofar as the code links or uses any core WP functions it should also be GPL licensed." James Farmer responds here, which set off another discussion, summarized by Roger Benningfield: "The GPL is specifically designed to be "sticky" in this fashion, and it only applies to public code releases… if you keep your mods in-house, the GPL cannot be used to take it from you."
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