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GPL and Wordpress Plugin Documentation

by Michaelocity
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I sell a lot of Premade Websites to clients and always created my own custom videos or write my own "user-friendly" documentation docs. But I was wondering, since most Wordpress and Joomla Plugins are GPL, can't I just copy and paste their "ACTUAL" Developer Documentation retaining all credits, copyrights, logos, etc and save about a day's work? Anyone with insight on this?
#documentation #gpl #plugin #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author wolfmmiii
    No. Code is GPL. docs are not.
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  • Profile picture of the author Michaelocity
    Hey Wolf, there may be hope for me after all

    I saw this over at the GNU website:
    "Published software should be free software. To make it free software, you need to release it under a free software license. We normally use the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL), but occasionally we use other free software licenses. We use only licenses that are compatible with the GNU GPL for GNU software.

    Documentation for free software should be free documentation, so that people can redistribute it and improve it along with the software it describes. To make it free documentation, you need to release it under a free documentation license. We normally use the GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL), but occasionally we use other free documentation licenses."

    So for example, since WooCommerce is GPL, their documentation would be GPL and therefore I would able to redistribute and even modify it as long as i use the GNUfree documentation license. You think i'm covered here?
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