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⛔️ [DEPRECATED] A reusable iOS rich text editor component.

7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 1 story, 6 comments · first 2016-10-29 · latest 2016-10-30

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  1. …to the LICENSE file. On some files, the MIT license is correctly present at the top of the file: https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-Editor-iOS/blo...
    comment by vbernat · 2016-10-30 · in Dear Matt Mullenweg: An Open Letter from Wix.com’s CEO Avishai Abrahami
  2. …project (which amusingly, he seems to have gone from the original GPLv2 to MIT a year earlier: https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-Editor-iOS/com... ). Even at that time, the source code included from the other project seems to…
    comment by boulos · 2016-10-30 · in Dear Matt Mullenweg: An Open Letter from Wix.com’s CEO Avishai Abrahami
  3. Yes, that is exactly what they did: https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-Editor-iOS/com...
    comment by timdorr · 2016-10-30 · in Dear Matt Mullenweg: An Open Letter from Wix.com’s CEO Avishai Abrahami
  4. …it would have been easier to use it directly. https://github.com/nnhubbard/ZSSRichTextEditor https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-Editor-iOS So, Wix built a wrapper for a GPL piece of code, which was just a wrapper for a MIT piece…
    comment by mbesto · 2016-10-29 · in Dear Matt Mullenweg: An Open Letter from Wix.com’s CEO Avishai Abrahami
  5. …is under plain vanilla GPL 2 without any supplements [1], so attribution is not required. [1] https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-Editor-iOS/blo... EDIT: If anything, this whole controversy shows one thing: Open source licenses…
    comment by weinzierl · 2016-10-29 · in Dear Matt Mullenweg: An Open Letter from Wix.com’s CEO Avishai Abrahami
  6. …a wrapper for ZSSRichTextEditor, and subsequently had it covered by GPL instead of MIT. (see: https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-Editor-iOS/blo... ) 3. Kol then took that stuff, implemented React, and re-applied MIT license to…
    comment by DonCullen · 2016-10-29 · in I Found Myself Accused of Stealing Code from WordPress