[Fedora-legal-list] Usage discrimination in Akismet (WordPress Plugin)

Tom Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Mon Apr 1 02:01:58 UTC 2013


On 03/31/2013 09:41 PM, Ken Dreyer wrote:
> For what it's worth, Six Apart re-implemented the Akismet API in its
> "Serotype" software, and that server-side software is GPLv2. With a
> simple API endpoint change, the Wordpress plugin (or any other
> Akismet-interaction software) can use Serotype instead.
> 
> I don't know if the existence of a Free server-side implementation would
> have any effect on influencing Fedora Legal one way or the other, but I
> figured I'd throw it out there.

Yeah, I was leaning towards it not being a license use restriction, but
that really seals it.

Not a problem. :)

~tom

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