License question

  • Resolved Ate Up With Motor

    (@ate-up-with-motor)


    8 years, 10 months ago

    Hi, I have a picky licensing question.

    I’ve been using WP Super Cache on my sites for several years. A while back, I enlisted the help of someone more knowledgeable than I to try to diagnose an HTAccess problem that I couldn’t figure out, which involved sending that person a slightly sanitized copy of the then-current .htaccess file to look at. That included the mod_rewrite rules for WP Super Cache.

    Here’s my question: As far as the plugin developers are concerned, is that kosher with regard to the plugin license? I don’t know if exposing that section of code constitutes “distribution” as far as the GPL is concerned (something that unfortunately didn’t occur to me until after the fact). I would think this would probably constitute fair use, since it was a small section of code unlikely to replace or compete with the original, for diagnostic purposes.

    Is this a matter that the developers would be concerned about? If so, let me know if there’s some way I can make it up to you; I would certainly like to be able to continue using the plugin. Thanks!

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-super-cache/

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  • Plugin Author Brandon Kraft

    (@kraftbj)

    Code Wrangler

    That’s completely allowed and acceptable. I’m not a lawyer, but the general takeaway from the GPL is that if you distribute the code to others, they must be able to share/modify/distribute the code as well with the same (or compatible) license.

    Personally, I wouldn’t consider our .htaccess rules applicable, to be honest, but in either case, keep on using WP Super Cache ??

    Thread Starter Ate Up With Motor

    (@ate-up-with-motor)

    Okay, thanks a lot! And thanks for the plugin, which is a huge help.

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