Regarding the Envato/WP situation, the solution I like best is to have the community create a better marketplace that respects the GPL.
Regarding the Envato/WP situation, the solution I like best is to have the community create a better marketplace that respects the GPL.
@alexkingorg While I agree with the sentiment, Envato’s use of a split license is GPL compliant…
.@stephenharris88 Just imagine, a marketplace with a developer revenue split that doesn’t suck balls and fully embraces the WP community!
@alexkingorg @stephenharris88 out of curiosity… what’s @envato’s split?
@petemall http://bit.ly/H6o1MB I release GPL WP software. “Exclusive” gives my users more rights than me! /cc @stephenharris88
@alexkingorg @stephenharris88 that’s crazy
@alexkingorg @petemall How so?
.@petemall Afaik 50-70% for you /CC @alexkingorg @stephenharris88 @envato
@unserkaiser 33% for non-exclusive, and that’s an *increase*. It used to be only 25%! /cc @petemall @stephenharris88 @envato
@alexkingorg Yes: For non-exclusive. Thats imo ok. They need to bind their devs, so exclusive is much better: 70% @petemall @stephenharris88
@alexkingorg And imagine a market place that gives same shares but offers support and community tools. would take it. /CC @stephenharris88
@alexkingorg do you think it’d be feasible for such a marketplace to ignore the fear that envato has (ppl re-selling their stuff)?
@tnorthcutt Why shouldn’t they be allowed to sell other places?
@alexkingorg sorry, that’s not what I mean – I mean ppl buying on envato, then reselling what they buy. My understanding is (cont)
@alexkingorg that is why they require the split license – to prevent re-sell of products purchased on envato
@tnorthcutt It’s the developer’s product, not Envato’s. It’s not their problem.
@alexkingorg good point.
@alexkingorg do you think such a marketplace needs to be standalone (eg not the wp app store plugin recently released)?
@alexkingorg nvm, saw your tweet from earlier saying wpa should be the marketplace
@alexkingorg (serious question)
@petemall @alexkingorg @envato Code (PHP & HTML) is GPL. Images, css etc, is under the market place license
@alexkingorg how about 3% / 97% split. http://t.co/OhgknCPJ it’s beta but getting there #marketplace #wordpress