It’s a sweeping generalisation but you’re probably reading this for one of two reasons. Either you’ve come here from a search engine link or a link from somewhere else on this site. Or you’ve come here from the Donate link on a WordPress plugin I’ve written.
If it’s the first reason, feel free to read on. If it’s the second, then if you’re looking for information on donating, then you’re in the right place, but there isn’t any way of donating here. Why?
WordPress is open source software or free software, released under the GPLv2, or later, license. This means that the plugins I’ve written are released under the same license.
The Free Software Foundation has this to say about the concept of free software …
“Free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer.”
The code I release is free as in free speech as well as free as in free beer. I do this because I want to and because I enjoy it. As I wrote in mid 2011 …
I’m not suggesting for one moment that if the current geo day job falls through I can happily pick up a replacement role coding JavaScript, or coding anything for that matter, but it’s oddly reassuring that I still have the vague ability to continue the profession of coding software that earnt me a living for almost 25 years.
… thanks for reading this far but free is free; no donations needed or required.
Finally, all of the code described on these pages is released under an open source license, either the GPL or the BSD license and the code lives over on GitHub where each repository describes the license, either in the README or in one of the source files themselves.
