Happy Monday! Everyone have a great weekend? I know I sure did! Looks like there are some new themes and plugins to share today. They are products of some hard work over the weekend for sure. I’m always excited to see new plugins, but new themes make it that much sweeter. Way to go guys and gals! Here’s your list o’ new stuff:
Is Obox Beating the GPL, WordPress.com System?
Of course there’s a lot of pressure right now on making sure that the GPL issues around Envato and WordPress are enforced, or at least that the things being said are aligned with actual action and one such confusing example is Obox and their apparent distribution of their Gigawatt Theme. As mentioned by @ChrisWallace, what exactly is the ruling here? Yo @wordpressdotcom you got some GPL problems!WordPress.com: theme.wordpress.com/themes/gigawat… ThemeForest: themeforest.net/item/gigawatt-… — Chris Wallace (@chriswallace) January 24, 2013 The proof of the issue, as they say, is in the pudding:
WP Daily @ The Apple Store
I happen to head to the Apple Store at least once a week – not that I spend something every single time I’m there but pretty darn close. But I was on a two-part mission, the first being to get some necessary pieces of software and hardware for my mother who is the last person in my family of 7 to convert to Apple-powered products. My father, who was the most difficult to convert, was really the last stronghold that I had to crack – my mother was a simple phone call and she said “Yes” – so now I’ve got […]
Time's Person of the Year, VIP Services
VIP Services have shared that Time Magazine’s very famous Person of the Year site has been re-imagined with WordPress and spent some time chatting with Cathy Sharick who is the managing editor who managed to pull off this development in 2 weeks! The reason they chose WordPress?
Habari vs. WordPress from a Licensing Perspective
Probably the number one question right now considering the increased interest in the GPL is what license Habari is. That’s easy, as it’s the Apache License. It’s worth noting that the Free Software Foundation considers the Apache License, Version 2.0 to be a free software license, compatible with version 3 of the GPL as well. But what does this really mean? It means that the ASL makes no (zip, zilch, nada) restrictions for works that are released: Derivative Works shall not include works that remain separable from, or merely link (or bind by name) to the interfaces of, the Work and Derivative Works thereof. Historically it’s been argued that links to […]
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