DODonCullen·Oct 29, 2016
I'm not someone who'd know enough to be able to discuss this in detail. But in the linked post, Kal Tol mentions "The WordPress GPL Rich Text component in question, is actually a wrapper around another Rich Text component named ZSSRichTextEditor which is licensed MIT. In retrospect it would have been easier to use it directly."
So it appears that although Wordpress is using GPL, the component that Wordpress based their wrapper on is using a MIT license; so it would seem there is a flexibility in being able to use either the GPL or MIT license.
What I'm basically seeing based on Kol's article is:
1. MIT created ZSSRichTextEditor, and distributed it using MIT license. (see: https://github.com/nnhubbard/ZSSRichTextEditor/blob/master/L...)
2. Wordpress then created a wrapper for ZSSRichTextEditor, and subsequently had it covered by GPL inst
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ead of MIT. (see: https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-Editor-iOS/blo...)
3. Kol then took that stuff, implemented React, and re-applied MIT license to it, which whether intentional or not, was what the original license was.
That being said, it's all open source and in the public domain. There's no theft here if it's was freely distributed. Kol even took it one step further (as he should), and gave proper credit where due -- not only within the project, but on social media.