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I was flabbergasted when a friend introduced me to WP's ideas of "GPLs" and "nulled plugins", which is to say, by the community's description, someone other than the author distributed GPL-licensed WP plugins without charging for them.

Uh, what? Yes, that's how the license those authors chose for their code works. The other people aren't "thieves" for redistributing it.

Other people reading this, check out https://old.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1ghc2o6/gpl_clar... for a representative example of odd discussions on the subject.




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