WordPress-Editor-iOS

From the lead developer: https://medium.com/@talkol/how-i-found-myself-accused-of-ste... > I know some developers are scared of using GPL, apparently for a pretty good reason. 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. https://github.com/nnhubbard/ZSSRichTextEditor https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-Editor-iOS So, Wix built a wrapper for a GPL piece of code, which was just a wrapper for a MIT piece of code. According to this tweet[0], the only thing Wix needs to do is to assign a GPL license to their code...but alas IANAL. [0] - https://twitter.com/nitrogen/status/792486850845773824 EDIT - From the OP's blog: > When you embed and use GPL code, you have to rel

This response still doesn't address the core issue: The Wix mobile App uses GPL code but the rest of the source code of the app has not been made public so far as required by the GPL. At least they missed to add a written offer to distribute the source code. If they will publish the source if someone requests it has to be seen. When it comes to attribution it gets more difficult. As far as I understand the code from Wordpress is under plain vanilla GPL 2 without any supplements [1], so attribution is not required. [1] https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-Editor-iOS/blo... EDIT: If anything, this whole controversy shows one thing: Open source licenses (particularly the GPL) are still not widely understood. (I assume ignorance on WIX's side).