Fork Happens

a brief history of WordPress

Arūnas Liuiza

WordPress Core Contributor, WordPress Kaunas Meetup co-organizer, WordCamp (Lithuania, Riga, Stockholm, Jyväskylä, Oslo, Norrköping) speaker and one of the editors of the Lithuanian WordPress translation team.

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For Developers

deployer.seravo.com - a service that syncs WordPress plugins from GitHub to WordPress.org automatically.

TryoutWP.com - a service to spin up live temporary demo sites for WordPress plugins and themes.

Licenses,
licenses everywhere

MIT, TL;DR version

A short, permissive software license. Basically, you can do whatever you want as long as you include the original copyright and license notice in any copy of the software/source. There are many variations of this license in use.

Apache 2, TL;DR version

You can do what you like with the software, as long as you include the required notices. This permissive license contains a patent license from the contributors of the code.

GPL, TL;DR version

You may copy, distribute and modify the software as long as you track changes/dates in source files. Any modifications to or software including (via compiler) GPL-licensed code must also be made available under the GPL along with build & install instructions.

What the
f...ork?

Forking code

Taking a copy of source code from one software package and starting independent development on it, creating a distinct and separate piece of software