Let’s talk about recent events in the WordPress community. One month ago today, the long-awaited WordPress 3.0 was released. However, one month later today, some very bad things are happening in the domestic and foreign WordPress world. It can be said that One side is deserted, and the other side is full of enthusiasm. Why do you say that? I think friends who have been tossing WordPress should have guessed it.
Why is it said that China is deserted? In fact, the domestic WordPress community is not deserted. This can be seen from the popularity of the WordPress Chinese forum. Everyone is actively discussing the new features of 3.0. What I mean by deserted is the simplified Chinese official website of WordPress. As of today, WordPress 3.0 has been released for a full month, and our Chinese official website is still WordPress 2.9.2. In the past, the Chinese version was only released within a week or two at most. However, this time it has been a month and it has not been released yet. Any news. Although many unofficial Chinese versions were released during this period, these versions have not been officially reviewed, and their security still makes some bloggers feel uneasy, so many bloggers still hope to use the official version for peace of mind. In fact, the Chinese versions released by some teams and individuals, such as the domestic WordPress Chinese team, are quite good, but even so, the serious Chinese official version is not updated, which always makes everyone feel frustrated. To a certain extent, it is undoubtedly It poured cold water on the enthusiastic domestic WordPress bloggers.
Having said this, I am not criticizing the official Chinese managers of WordPress. I still admire the managers responsible for the official Chinese version, because doing this does not have any personal economic benefits for them. It is purely out of interest and hobby. Keep doing it now. This time it was not released in time. It is said that it was delayed because of personal matters. So here I think that our Chinese official website should be changed. After all, personal time and energy are limited. We should open our arms and include some excellent Chinese groups so that there is a team to do this. , even if a certain individual is absent, there will be other members to complete the release of the Chinese version. This will not delay the release of the Chinese version, but also promotes communication. Wouldn't it be nice to be there. I hope that in the near future, WordPress Chinese officials will have a strong team to fight, instead of fighting alone like now.
Let’s take a look at what the foreign WordPress community is doing in full swing recently. Of course, it is an increasingly fierce dispute between WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg and Chris Pearson (the developer of the WordPress Thesis theme framework). Mullenweg said that WordPress complies with the General Public License (GPL), which states that you can develop anything, but things developed on the basis of the GPL must also comply with the GPL, so he believes that Pearson’s approach violates the GPL that WordPress abides by. General Public License (GPL) agreement and asked the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) to clarify whether WordPress themes need to comply with the GPL. The SFLC found that the php files using WordPress copyright code were protected by the GPL, but the images and CSS of the theme were not included in this list. Pearson believes that its premium WordPress themes and frameworks are not subject to the GPL because it is completely independent of WordPress.
So far, the dispute has not stopped, and it is said that it may go to court. I hope this will not happen. Whether the development of the WordPress theme framework needs to comply with the GPL, no one can say yes or no until the final ruling comes out, because there are good reasons. But I think that although Mullenweg’s concepts and ideas are great, he hopes that the WordPress world should be free, open source and free, but there is no such a pure world in this world. Being too idealistic is not necessarily a good thing. Maybe with ideas, Driven by interests and hobbies, many excellent works can be created, but the world is real. On the basis of pure ideas, appropriately adding some realistic interests may make things more efficient and quality, but the main problem is The question is whether it is conducive to the healthy development of WordPress. As for the subsequent development, let us pay attention together! The first address of this article: http://www.ainsect.com/archives/6239
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