Comment by CharlesW

2 years ago

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.

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sureIy  2 years ago

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.

danillonunes  2 years ago

I think being GPL is a requirement to host plugins in wp.org, so yes, that free version available there is (was?) open source.

ValentineC  2 years ago

> 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...