best way to handle subscriptions with a licence?
best way to handle subscriptions with a licence?
licensing
How come W3TC is allowed to host premium code in the WordPress repo?
How come W3TC is allowed to host premium code in the WordPress repo?
Understanding the WPBakery License
Understanding the WPBakery License
Single Domain/Multiple Domain installation restrictions allowed for plugins?
GPL prohibits restricting the code in any way. You can restrict the support or non GPL parts of the plugin (images/css) to a single domain but you can’t restrict the GPL code to a single domain. Q&A: WORDPRESS & GPL MATT MULLENWEG’s response to the same question:
License of the used Bootstrap Theme is not GPL compatible
You can use this software for free only for no-profit projects. This restriction is not compatible with the GPL which says: This License explicitly affirms your unlimited permission to run the unmodified Program. Either ask the author to put the code under a GPL compatible license, or remove that dependency from your code.
Licensing a Plugin [closed]
The only 100% way to get a paid subscription kind of service working is to move part of the functionality to an external server which is under your control and manage payment, expiry, etc there. When the code is not under your control you can not limit its use, this is a very basic life … Read more
Licensing options for WordPress Plugins
This is a legal and business question and not a technical one, but since you found an angle that is slightly relevant to plugin development, here comes an answer. Copyright law is complex and while in many places it is basically the same, there are still differences between different countries and therefor there is no … Read more
Can i legally remove a credit from a free plugin on wordpress.org? [closed]
That plugin is licensed under the GPL (GNU General Public License), so you can modify it as you please. You can even redistribute your modified version, as long as you do so under the GPL and adhere to its requirements. That said, even if it wasn’t, I believe you would be allowed to add CSS, … Read more
Can we use a library under MIT license in a WooCommerce plugin?
Disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer, so this isn’t legal advice. Yes, you can include MIT licensed code in something you sell. The MIT license is very permissive. From the license: Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in … Read more
Is it fair to use MIT licensed code in WordPress plugins? [closed]
I would normally not answer, but since I answered your other question once please allow me to. If you check the MIT licensing model you may read: MIT licensed software can be integrated into GPL software, but not the other way around. Since WordPress themes and plugins should be GPLv2 I would say it is … Read more