{"id":185188,"date":"2016-10-31T08:34:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T06:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=185188"},"modified":"2016-10-31T08:36:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T06:36:07","slug":"wordpress-founder-says-wix-stole-its-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/185188-wordpress-founder-says-wix-stole-its-code.html","title":{"rendered":"WordPress founder says Wix stole its code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ma.tt\/2016\/10\/wix-and-the-gpl\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg has said<\/strong><\/a> Wix, a website building platform, copied WordPress without attribution, credit, or following the licence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started playing around with the editor, and felt\u2026 d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu. It was familiar. Like I had used it before. Turns out I had. Because it\u2019s WordPress,\u201d said Mullenweg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can see the forked repositories on GitHub complete with original commits from Alex and Maxime, two developers on Automattic\u2019s mobile team,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWix has always borrowed liberally from WordPress &#8211; including their company name, which used to be Wixpress Ltd. &#8211; but this blatant rip-off and code theft is beyond anything I\u2019ve seen before from a competitor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wix.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/dear-matt-mullenweg-an-open-letter-from-wix-coms-ceo-avishai-abrahami\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Wix CEO Avishai Abrahami responded<\/strong><\/a>, telling Mullenweb \u201cwe were all very surprised by your post, as you have so many claims against us\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Abrahami said Wix is giving back, highlighting that it has a list of 224 projects on its public GitHub page.<\/p>\n<p>He admitted that Wix used the WordPress open source library, but said everything they improved or modified was submitted back as open source.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you need source code that we have, and we have not yet released, then, most likely we will be happy to share, you only need to ask,\u201d said Abrahami.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/145351-wordpress-powers-25-of-all-websites.html\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress powers 25% of all websites<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg has said Wix copied WordPress without attribution, credit, or following the licence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":141744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,10596,39548,9647],"class_list":["post-185188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-matt-mullenweg","tag-wix","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185208,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185188\/revisions\/185208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}