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
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
== Fedora Project
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@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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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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