Category Archives: Open Source

Government for the People Makes You Special

Posted on February 26, 2010 by Lloyd

“It turns out that the International Intellectual Property Alliance, an umbrella group for organisations including the MPAA and RIAA, has requested with the US Trade Representative to consider countries like Indonesia, Brazil and India for its “Special 301 watchlist” because they … Continue reading →

Also posted in Free Culture | Tagged Andres Guadamuz, Brazil, copyright, Copyright Laws, Free Culture, IIPA, Indonesia, intellectual property, IP, MPAA, Open Source, RIAA, secretive anti-counterfeiting treaty, Special 301, Special 301 Watchlist, TPM, US Government, US Lobby Groups, Watch List | Leave a comment

WordPress 3 Coming Together

Posted on February 22, 2010 by Lloyd

The delirious pace of WordPress 3 development has been delicious!
I’ve enjoyed not being able to keep up at all.
The sprint is on to feature freeze!
There’s going to be a patch sprint of sorts for 3.0 this week. Please grab a … Continue reading →

Also posted in WordPress | Tagged Kubrick Theme, twentyten theme, WordPress, WordPress 3.0, WordPress Development, WordPress Themes | 4 Comments

WordPress Declaration of Independence

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Lloyd

The WordPress Foundation is a charitable organization founded by Matt Mullenweg to further the mission of the WordPress open source project: to democratize publishing through Open Source, GPL software.
The point of the foundation is to ensure free access, in perpetuity, to … Continue reading →

Also posted in Free Culture, WordPress | Tagged 501(c)3 non-profit organization, Free Culture, GNU Public License, GPL, Matt Mullenweg, Non-Profit, Open Source, Web Publishing, WordPress, WordPress Foundation, WordPress.com | 1 Comment

Versatile and Elegant, WordPress, Democratizing Publishing

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Lloyd

The combination of the elegant and versatile WordPress and the ground breaking Kubrick made that possible, turning the democratization of publishing from an idealized concept into a concrete reality.
Tina Daunt, “The Secret History of Kubrick, the Blog Theme That Changed … Continue reading →

Also posted in Computing, WordPress | Tagged Kubrick WordPress Theme, Software Design, Software Products, Tina Daunt, WordPress, WordPress Themes | Leave a comment

Free and Open Source from the Roots Up

Posted on October 2, 2009 by Lloyd

“Free and open source from the roots up. “Open source” can be much more than a development methodology. For me, it also constitutes a world view that upends institutionalized notions of competitive advantage that saw their apex in the twentieth … Continue reading →

Also posted in Free Culture | Tagged Automattic, codepoet, Free and Open Source from the Roots Up, Free Culture, Matt Mullenweg, Open Source, Paul Kim, Toni Schneider, Upends institutionalized notions of competitive advantage, WordPress, WordPress.com VIPs | 5 Comments

Everything In Our Power

Posted on September 8, 2009 by Lloyd

WordPress is a community of hundreds of people that read the code every day, audit it, update it, and care enough about keeping your blog safe that we do things like release updates weeks apart from each other even though … Continue reading →

Also posted in WordPress | Tagged Community, Developers, Open Source, open source participants, Partici, Security, Software Development, WordPress | Leave a comment

wp-content in Code is a Tell for Common WordPress Coding Mistakes

Posted on July 13, 2009 by Lloyd

Regularly while reviewing themes and plugins, I’ll see URLs or paths that include ‘wp-content’. This is a often a hint of a WordPress coding mistake.
Consider this simple example:
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”http://example.com/wp-content/themes/default/style-ie.css” type=”text/css” media=”screen” />
If as part of a migration or server … Continue reading →

Also posted in WordPress | Tagged Absolution Paths, ABSPATH, bloginfo(), Duane Storey, get_stylesheet_directory(), get_stylesheet_directory_uri(), get_stylesheet_uri(), Mark Jaquith, php, Plugin Development, Relative Paths, STYLESHEETPATH, TEMPLATEPATH, URLs, Will Norris, WordPress, WordPress Plugin Checker, WordPress Theme Development, WordPress.com, wp-content, WP_CONTENT_DIR | 1 Comment

GPL Isn’t a Good License for Proprietary Software

Posted on July 4, 2009 by Lloyd

Yesterday, I wrote about the clarification regarding WordPress Themes and the GPL (v2). Daniel Jalkut, who I featured as a personal WordPress Hero earlier this year, wrote one of the most interesting responses to “[WordPress] Themes are GPL, too“. Written … Continue reading →

Also posted in GPL | Tagged Collaboration, Community, GPL, Open Source, Participation, Proprietary Software, Software Developers, WordPress | 5 Comments

Commercial WordPress Themes’s PHP Code is GPL 2 Too

Posted on July 3, 2009 by Lloyd

I’m hoping that my boss Matt Mullenweg sharing the legal opinion on “Themes are GPL, too” will put the issue to rest for the majority of the community (emphasis mime):
“PHP in WordPress themes must be GPL, artwork and CSS may … Continue reading →

Also posted in GPL, WordPress | Tagged GPL, GPL v2, licensing, Theme Licensing, WordPress, WordPress Themes | 28 Comments

WordPress.com Still Blocked in China

Posted on June 6, 2009 by Lloyd

I’ve seen some reports lately that “WordPress is blocked in China”, including some Mashable articles. To clarify, it’s WordPress.com that is blocked, not all sites that run self-hosted WordPress.
Mashable’s “China Blocks Twitter (And Almost Everything Else)” seems to suggest that the … Continue reading →

Also posted in WordPress, WordPress.com | Tagged AFP, Censorship, China, Chinese Government, Dangerous Journalism, Great Firewall of China, Guy Newey, Journalism, Matt Mullenweg, Public Security Bureau, Reporters without Borders, Reporting, RSF, Stan Schroeder, Tor, Tor Project, WordPress, WordPress.com | 5 Comments