1:12 p.m.
Hello,
I'm currently working with a own WordPress blog and have to find out, that the
WordPress plugin is only free for personal use.
In the readme.txt file you find the folllowing inforatioons:
License: GPLv2 or later
PS: You'll need an [Akismet.com API key](http://akismet.com/get/) to use it. Keys are
free for personal blogs, with paid subscriptions available for businesses and commercial
sites.
The above cited sentence told be, that commercial sites have to pay
a fee, if they wnat to use that plugin.
Becuase this violate the Fedora policy, I would like your mind
about this situation.
Best Regards:
Jochen Schmitt
3:14 p.m.
On 03/31/2013 02:12 PM, Jochen Schmitt wrote:
Hello,
I'm currently working with a own WordPress blog and have to find out, that the
WordPress plugin is only free for personal use.
In the readme.txt file you find the folllowing inforatioons:
License: GPLv2 or later
PS: You'll need an [Akismet.com API key](http://akismet.com/get/) to use it. Keys
are free for personal blogs, with paid subscriptions available for businesses and
commercial sites.
The above cited sentence told be, that commercial sites have to pay
a fee, if they wnat to use that plugin.
Becuase this violate the Fedora policy, I would like your mind
about this situation.
This is a weird one. I'm not sure if it counts as a license use
restriction or not. Lemme consider it.
~tom
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8:41 p.m.
For what it's worth, Six Apart re-implemented the Akismet API in its
"Serotype" software, and that server-side software is GPLv2. With a simple
API endpoint change, the Wordpress plugin (or any other Akismet-interaction
software) can use Serotype instead.
I don't know if the existence of a Free server-side implementation would
have any effect on influencing Fedora Legal one way or the other, but I
figured I'd throw it out there.
- Ken
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Tom Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 03/31/2013 02:12 PM, Jochen Schmitt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm currently working with a own WordPress blog and have to find out,
that the
> WordPress plugin is only free for personal use.
>
> In the readme.txt file you find the folllowing inforatioons:
>
> License: GPLv2 or later
>
> PS: You'll need an [Akismet.com API key](http://akismet.com/get/) to
use it. Keys are free for personal blogs, with paid subscriptions
available for businesses and commercial sites.
>
> The above cited sentence told be, that commercial sites have to pay
> a fee, if they wnat to use that plugin.
>
> Becuase this violate the Fedora policy, I would like your mind
> about this situation.
This is a weird one. I'm not sure if it counts as a license use
restriction or not. Lemme consider it.
~tom
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9:01 p.m.
On 03/31/2013 09:41 PM, Ken Dreyer wrote:
For what it's worth, Six Apart re-implemented the Akismet API in
its
"Serotype" software, and that server-side software is GPLv2. With a
simple API endpoint change, the Wordpress plugin (or any other
Akismet-interaction software) can use Serotype instead.
I don't know if the existence of a Free server-side implementation would
have any effect on influencing Fedora Legal one way or the other, but I
figured I'd throw it out there.
Yeah, I was leaning towards it not being a license use restriction, but
that really seals it.
Not a problem. :)
~tom
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