Comments against Unsplash WordPress plugin are a bit …
Unsplash releases a free GPL-licensed plugin and boom! Unsplash is an awesome platform. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. It’s an awesome platform. WordPress is an awesome CMS. I’ve always said that and it’s why I write about it. Both have an open access ethos and, for that, both are to be celebrated. Unsplash releases an official WordPress plugin to the WordPress.org plugins repository, in her usual way Sarah Gooding writes an excellent article on the release, and then what happens? People start complaining in the comments. People assert that: the Unsplash licence is “against the GPL”; and promoting the plugin and hosting it on WordPress.org “shouldn’t have happened, even if it’s just a service gateway”. In response, even Matt says he’s “not sure if this should be allowed in the directory”, later adding: “Maybe if there was a way again to find just the CC0 licensed images, which the Creative Commons also requested, this could be okay to promote.” Someone else says: “They can now force user sign ups to inflate …