Re: [libreplanet-discuss] GPLDL.com - Hottest archive for Premium GPL-licensed WordPress Themes & Plugins

[Stefan Nagy]

Hi,

Am 03.12.2017 17:29 schrieb John F. Melone:
> I recently came across GPLDL at https://gpldl.com. This site
> redistributes thousands (!) of WordPress Products (Themes & Plugins)
> which are usually sold by the developers for Free.

Yes, you can get all those free themes and plugins gratis there.
In my view it's a good thing that companies are able to make money
with their free products. If this wouldn't work, they (or someone else)
would still make money – but with proprietary software.

> Two questions from me:
>
> 1. Is this site legit - according to the GNU Public License?

Sure. When you buy a plugin you get the source code licensed under the
GNU GPL, so you have every right to set up a 'free beer'-website and
share it with everyone else.

I'm not sure this is really the best way to support the project, but 
that's
another question…

> 2. Why has there never been any workshop or talk at Libreplanet in the
> last years on this?
>
> WordPress is by far the most important software powering the Internet
> it is GNU licensed so redistributing commercial plugins and themes
> should be a big deal.
>
> Any thoughts from the community on this?

Yes, it's really great that Wordpress is free software :)

Two things I don't like: They use Google Fonts in all default themes,
see [1] and [2]. They use Gravatar (instead of Libravatar for example)
by default [3].

BTW,

Cheers,
Stefan.



[1] see https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/42166
[2] Disable Google Fonts: 
https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-google-fonts/
[2] Libravatar Replace: 
https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/libravatar-replace/