doesn’t the fact it’s open source essentially require it to? (Honestly asking as I’m not familiar with how it all works.) You don’t get to pick and choose who gets to use it then. Either it should be licensed in a different manner that requires contributions to use (if something like that exists) or go through the legal process to stop WP Engine from using “WP.”

@humdrum No, this doesn't actually have much to do with the source code, which WP Engine is free to use. This is more narrow like whether WP Engine servers can use wordpress.org's update API.

ah gotchya, thank you!

AIUI, the injunction was because WP Engine was targeted specifically. If it was set up differently, then Matt’s framing would make sense; but it seems like the only requirement right now is to maintain the status quo.

If WP.org is that much of a cost, then stop building it into the product.

@oddevan I do think wordpress.org is important enough that it should probably be run by the community.

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