pietvvv

Hi bizswoop,

Thank you for your response to this matter so promptly. First, please accept my apology for your interpretation that I am a forceful or threatening requester by asking for your source code to be made open and not just free as an immediate priority and not a future one as you stated previously.

My history and who I am has nothing to do with my request as being part of the community to have your source code made available to the full according to the license and guideline terms of www.ads-software.com. I had no malicious intend in my approach but I merely followed a similar support topic approach where a favourable outcome was reached.

It saddens me that I am left with no choice but to take up your suggestion of taking additional action. I wished not to report your works as you guys are doing a great job and your plugins are fantastic as I previously stated. As a developer of WordPress and an active participant (hence me raising this request) of the www.ads-software.com community, not being able to audit, customise or enhance inside your code base of your plugins and not just on top or around as you mentioned, I will now have to proceed with the review team of the www.ads-software.com community.

A deeply disappointed user of your plugins.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by pietvvv.

Hi bizswoop,

Please see my response here.

Hi Bizswoop,

Thank you for your response. I appreciate that you want to focus on your customers and that source code compliance is not your highest priority at the moment. However, as you mentioned that you have several plugins contributed to the .org community. Some are found to be currently in a state of non compliance to both the www.ads-software.com plugin guidelines and the GPL v2 itself in section 3 or the GPL v3 in section 1. As this is the cornerstone and foundation of the WordPress community and your source code is found not in compliance with both the GPL and the www.ads-software.com community plugin guidelines as stated in my previous message, I believe and request that your compliance to the license you agreed to are more important than product development or product roadmap at this point. Please make available immediately the full source code of your plugin and the other ones not in compliance. If you fail to comply with this community request, it would sadden me to report your works as they are in breach of the guidelines of www.ads-software.com. This is the very foundation Matt and others have fought so hard to create and maintain.

My concern (and I’m sure others) is this, apart from preventing developers and other businesses to thrive through the WordPress open source community by allowing their own customisations and enhancements, it also posses a security concern as we have to take your word that there are no security issues or miscellaneous code within your mangled and obscure source code.

I trust you understand the urgency of your compliance and I look forward to your prompt response.

Thanks

• This reply was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by pietvvv.

Hi wpxpo,

Thank you – you guys are awesome! I can see the reactjs source directory on the link provided and it is what was missing. I appreciate the quick response. Keep up the good work!

Thanks

Hi wpxpo,

I noticed that on your file ‘editor.blocks.js’ you are still using webpack to mangle, bundle and obscure code and its against the plugin guidelines as stated in rule 4 of the www.ads-software.com plugin guidelines. It is making it impossible for anyone to modify the code in javascript. Please provide the full source code under the terms and guidelines of www.ads-software.com.

Thanks