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by fhfhfhjfnfnfmf 631 days ago
They forked an open source plugin and changed the affiliate code in it along with their other changes. How could that be illegal?
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nightowl_games 631 days ago
Sounds like something that WooCommerce should have in their license or something. idk sounds like a pitfall to me. Why would anyone pay WooCommerce anything then? Just fork it and change the attribution code.
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fhfhfhjfnfnfmf 630 days ago
They can’t. All Wordpress plugins are required to be GPL, like Wordpress itself, and like the software Wordpress itself was forked from. The viral license they agreed to is working as intended.

I don’t know what people are actually paying for.

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