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WPEngine v Automattic, and King Pyrrhus of Epirus

Settlement conference On 9 July, a settlement conference was held in the court hearing the WPEngine v Automattic proceedings (proceedings that are now so well-known that there’s no need to describe them). Unfortunately, no settlement was reached...

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The GPL and nulled plugins

When a leading proponent of open source says something about the GPL, people notice When one of the world’s leading proponents of open source software and the GPL makes pronouncements of what the GPL does and does not allow, many people will have a...

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The “not affiliated” checkbox and the GDPR

TL;DR The punchline of this post is that the operator(s) of WordPress.org may, through the “I am not affiliated…” checkbox, be breaching Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and that is something of which the board of Automattic ought...

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