• @TheWizardOfOdd
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    112 months ago

    Of course. You can host Wordpress just about anywhere that offers a recent enough version of php and access to a database

    • HobbitFoot
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      22 months ago

      Then why does WP engine need access to this specific database?

      • @[email protected]
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        72 months ago

        Because Wordpress is also hosting 1000s of plugins that WP engine users can install.

        I’m not sure what the license regarding those things is, WP engine could probably just mirror it -

        But they basically got locked out of the default ecosystem infrastructure.

        • HobbitFoot
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          32 months ago

          I feel like mirroring the plugins would resolve this issue, since the argument seems to be centered on server costs.

          • @[email protected]
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            22 months ago

            The argument centering on server costs would be logical, but the actual legal battle going on, and Mullenweg’s stated justification behind asking for 8% of WPEngine profit, is claims of misuse of copyrighted names.

            Meanwhile the WordPress license explicitly cedes copyright over the name WordPress and the initialism WP.