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22 Oct 2024

Minutes of WordPress Foundation 2024 Meeting Highlight How Intertwined It Is With Automattic

In a cease and desist letter dated September 23, a lawyer from Perkins Coie wrote that they were writing while representing “Automattic Inc. and WooCommerce, Inc.” One section of that was titled “Violations of Our WordPress Foundation Trademark Policy” and has this information under the heading:

It is further inappropriate that you violated the terms of your WordCamp US Sponsorship Agreement, which specified clearly that “any use of the WordPress trademarks is subject to the WordPress Trademark Policy listed at http://wordpressfoundation.org/trademark-policy.” You repeatedly and intentionally violated the WordPress Foundation Trademark Policy’s prohibition on the “use [of] the[] [WordPress marks] as part of a product, project, service, domain name, or company name,” as demonstrated in Exhibit B attached hereto. [Read more]

24 Sep 2024

Who Is on the WordPress Foundation Board?

With the recent drama surrounding Matt Mullenweg’s extortion attempt of WP Engine and potential legal action resulting from that, the WordPress Foundation has been getting more attention. There is fairly little information on the foundation and a lot of understandable confusion over it. On its homepage there is this explanation for its existence (emphasis in original):

The point of the foundation is to ensure free access, in perpetuity, to the software projects we support. People and businesses may come and go, so it is important to ensure that the source code for these projects will survive beyond the current contributor base, that we may create a stable platform for web publishing for generations to come. [Read more]