Title: GNU Violation
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# GNU Violation

 *  [undextrois](https://wordpress.org/support/users/undextrois/)
 * (@undextrois)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gnu-violation/)
 * Hello people
    what are your thoughts about blogging companies that use WordPress
   as its core and don’t say it outright (and who even sell their blogging services),
   such as [http://www.i.ph](http://www.i.ph) ( calliope product )?
 * Is Automattic going to go after them for violation of GPL?
 * cheers,

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 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gnu-violation/#post-790006)
 * How, exactly, are they violating the GPL?
 * I don’t think the GPL says what you think the GPL says.
 *  Thread Starter [undextrois](https://wordpress.org/support/users/undextrois/)
 * (@undextrois)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gnu-violation/#post-790113)
 * portions of the wordpress core can be seen on i.ph
 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gnu-violation/#post-790116)
 * > I don’t think the GPL says what you think the GPL says.
 * I’m thinking of a scene from The Princess Bride…
 * Undextrois, the GPL covers the distribution of software and modifications of 
   that software. If i.ph modifies WordPress and distributes it without sharing 
   or making publicaly available the source code including those modifications then
   they would be violating the GPL.
 * Building their services (I have not looked at i.ph) on top of WordPress.org’s
   software and not attributing it to WordPress does not violate the license.
 * It would be nice if they added a “Built with WordPress” on their site but not
   doing so is still okay with the GPL.
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gnu-violation/#post-790121)
 * > _Building their services (I have not looked at i.ph) on top of WordPress.org’s
   > software and not attributing it to WordPress does not violate the license._
 * True. And there is a version specifically for just that sort of thing too.
    [http://mu.wordpress.org](http://mu.wordpress.org)

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