WordPress stole this plugin

you have to understand.

1. WP Engine uses WordPress name as their promotion and takes a lot of profit without contributing anything. this is illegal.
2. WP Engine will now understand, this is the reward for their action, ACF PRO will become SCF for FREE.
3. Using free source code for commercial is more CRIMINAL. I bet, the WordPress developer community is bigger than WP Engine. There is no such thing as ”amateur” here.

We do understand.

1. Automattic has filed no lawsuit against WPEngine for supposed trademark violation, meaning this is a personal spat that’s intentionally negatively effecting the community.

2. WPEngine is now in the unique position of being one of the few WordPress Hosting Platforms that hosts there own mirror of the .org repository. Meaning they’re one of the few who are immune from Automattic’s supply chain attacks. This benefits WPEngine, not Automattic.

3. Point me to where in the GPL license it says code cannot be used commercially. Your argument is laughable. The GNU General Public License (GPL) explicitly allows for commercial use, including selling software based on GPL-licensed code.

The only thing Amateur here is the gaslighting.

@antimimin

1. thousands of companies do, including the company Automattic, founded by Matt Mullenweg who back then forked B2 and named it WordPress. And to be clear: Automattic is not the “owner” of the Software WordPress. WordPress is free software. The fact that the same guy (Matt Mullenweg) is also the founder of the company Automattic might confuse a lot of people. They do state:
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   Are www.remarpro.com and WordPress.com the same thing?
   
   “WordPress” itself is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) used to build and manage websites. WordPress is open-source software written, maintained, and supported by thousands of independent contributors worldwide and powers millions of websites. www.remarpro.com is the home page for the WordPress project. 
   
   WordPress.com is a commercial enterprise owned by Automattic, a company started by one of the founding developers of WordPress and staffed by full-time developers, designers, and support engineers. In addition, Automatticians (employees of Automattic) regularly contribute back to the WordPress software to benefit the entire community.
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   Look at their hosting company wordpress.com and the prices. If you want to use Woocommerce with them, you have to pay a lot, while other providers like mine (which is NOT WPengine) let you use WooCommerce in EVERY package, even with the cheapest for 5 bucks per month. How ironic is that?
2. I don’t know if that will be the case but I guess it will be the other way around.
3. As long as the code of the “sell” version of a plugin is under the same license as WordPress itself, which is GNU/GPL it IS legal. You pay for the possibility to download, automatic updates and support. You can change it and distribute it for free, just without the support from the origin developers.
   And did you notice that the company Automattic also is selling a lot of premium plugins, for example for WooCommerce? What do you think about that?

@antimimin

1. No that is not illegal. It is arguable that it is even a trademark violation.
2. ACF was always free. ACF PRO was never hosted on WordPressdotorg and is a different commercial product hosted on WP Engine’s websites.