Comment by sureIy
2 years ago
> Sherlocked
The verb you're looking for is stole
Sherloking is when a Walmart is built next to a cornershop. Here the dude tore open the corner shop while claiming to be a victim.
2 years ago
> Sherlocked
The verb you're looking for is stole
Sherloking is when a Walmart is built next to a cornershop. Here the dude tore open the corner shop while claiming to be a victim.
When I posted, I was under the impression that ACF was open source. But the GitHub repo doesn’t list one, so if it’s not open source…WTF.
Forking isn't the issue. Here they just took the whole ID/address from which existing installations will continue to be updated from. This is theft. I have no doubt it will be added to the lawsuit.
While technically they own the platform and can do whatever they want, there is clearly ill intent here and it'll be used against them.
I think being GPL is a requirement to host plugins in wp.org, so yes, that free version available there is (was?) open source.
> When I posted, I was under the impression that ACF was open source. But the GitHub repo doesn’t list one, so if it’s not open source…WTF.
Isn't it here?
https://github.com/AdvancedCustomFields/acf
If you mean the licence, it's in readme.txt:
https://github.com/AdvancedCustomFields/acf/blob/master/read...
Thanks! The GitHub app reports it as "None" (https://imgur.com/a/5dyaTfX), but now I see it's "GPLv2 or later".
Clearly AdvancedCustomFields should have filed a trademark to prohibit Wordpress from fully stealing it.
GPL code, trademarked branding. If you want to fork then you have to actually fork.
Oh the irony.
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Or, more blatant and accurate, Sherlocking is when Apple literally named their search product "Sherlock" when a popular third party shareware app named "Watson" already existed.