We’re also excited to see what great things you create with all the time you saved not having to write your own mobile editor. I suppose we’ll take this as a compliment - I’m sure the hundreds of people who have contributed to WordPress Core and our mobile apps are flattered that you chose to build one of your company’s core features using our code. Your app’s editor is built with stolen code, so your whole app is now in violation of the license. The GPL is what has allowed WordPress to flourish, and that let us create this code. This explicitly contravenes the GPL, which requires attribution and a corresponding GPL license on whatever you release publicly built on top of GPL code. but this blatant rip-off and code theft is beyond anything I’ve seen before from a competitor. Wix has always borrowed liberally from WordPress - including their company name, which used to be Wixpress Ltd. You can see the forked repositories on GitHub complete with original commits from Alex and Maxime, two developers on Automattic’s mobile team.
The custom icons, the class names, even the bugs. If I were being charitable, I’d say, “The app’s editor is based on the WordPress mobile app’s editor.” If I were being honest, I’d say that Wix copied WordPress without attribution, credit, or following the license. I started playing around with the editor, and felt… déjà vu. I’m always interested to see how others tackle the challenge of building and editing websites from a mobile device. Last week I downloaded the new Wix (closed, proprietary, non-open-sourced, non-GPL) mobile app. Anyone who knows me knows that I like to try new things - phones, gadgets, apps.
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