Wordpress Vs. Theme Developer Twit-Fight
Wordpress, the indomitable blogging platform has a surprising new enemy – the developer of a theme for Wordpress. Matt Mullenweg, the primary developer of Wordpress is unhappy because theme developer Chris Pearson refuses to honor the GPL license Wordpress is covered by. The GPL, or General Public License is designed to ensure that any derivative work is distributed under the same terms. Pearson sells his themes with a license that protects his work completely, but ignores Wordpress’ license requirements. The debate because extremely public a couple of days ago, when Mullenweg began advising…