David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

WordPress and Automatic already makes a ton of money.

This is part of the wonder of WordPress.

This is a project that generates hundreds of millions of dollars.

And Matt didn't feel like he was getting enough of that.

That's not a good argument, bro.

You can't just violate the spirit and the letter of these open source licenses and just start showing up with demand letters, even to characters that are not particularly sympathetic.

This goes to the root of my interpretation of open source in general.

The GPL.

is a particular license that actually demands code from people who use it under certain circumstances.

I've never liked the GPL.

I don't want your shitty code if you don't want to give it to me.

What am I going to do with that?

Some code dump that you've... I'm not on board with that part of Stallman's vision at all.

I love the MIT license.

To me, that is the perfect license because it is mercifully short.

I think it's two paragraphs, three paragraphs, really short.

And it basically says, here's some software.

It comes with no warranty.

You can't sue me.

You can't demand anything, but you can do whatever the hell you want with it.