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by colechristensen 609 days ago
Wordpress can't because it was a fork of b2/cafelog. You can't un-GPL code you didn't own in the first place.
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How much of that code is still left? I’d think the bigger problem is that they’d have to get everyone who ever contributed to it not as an Automattic employee to agree to a re-license.
Seeing how Matt has acted in the last couple of days, I wouldn't be surprised if they're just going to yank the license from under the project, and just wait for the lawsuits.
True. I’ve never seen someone destroy a multi-decade open source community so effectively.