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Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Spam Free WordPress] bait and switchIt’s not that the plugin is fake, but now just a lousy front that’s mostly designed to push people towards a proprietary (and probably GPL-violating) alternative.
The vast majority of those downloads were from before the “update” over the summer that turned the plugin into a bait and switch promo for another proprietary plugin.
This review is consistent with the vast majority of other 1-star reviews that have come in since the summer. Don’t be fooled by positive reviews or large downloads from pre-Summer 2013. The current plugin is lousy, pretty much a bait and switch for another proprietary (likely GPL-violating) plugin, and you can no longer trust any “updates” to this plugin.
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Spam Free WordPress] bait and switchThe plugin is just a front, a bait and switch trying to get you to purchase a proprietary plugin instead. This plugin’s functionality is way reduced, and it’ll just push you to buy a proprietary one instead.
I don’t need your permission to fork GPLv3 code.
Though, I’d much rather not — say, if you’d remove some of the annoying nagware from the plugin — but if that’s the only option to getting rid of all the nagware, then I may exercise my right to do so under the GPLv3.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Spam Free WordPress] Is this plugin GPLv3?I’ll take that as a yes to GPLv3…
Thanks for clarifying.
Intellectual Property rights are copyrights, and they’ve always been separate.
I don’t follow you here… Intellectual property is a vague, unspecific term that often refers to copyrights, patents, trademarks, or a variety of other totally separate things.
The GPL is a copyright license. Copyright is absolutely not separate from GPL licensing.
The statement is confusion because it says “GPLv3” and “Intellectual Property rights reserved…” GPL (v1, v2, v3…) is kinda the opposite of “rights reserved,” as many of the rights are waived via the license.
Hence my confusion…
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Spam Free WordPress] Not againDid you settle on an alternative? I’m considering just stripping the nagware code out of this GPLv3 plugin.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Cannot automatically upgrade pluginsI know what I just did was probably terrible from a security perspective, but I had this problem and I fixed it on a server I’m managing. I changed the permissions of all the directories in the WordPress installation to 0777. It was a bit of a brute force approach and it’d probably be better just to change the permission son the relevant directories (my guess is wp-content?), but the problem definitely seems to be an issue of the web server not having permission to write to the directory where it wants to create the temporary file (wherever that is).
Hope that helps.