WP Engine you may enter once again to the sources of the WordPress.org including themes and plugins. A judge in California upheld (PDF) request for termination prior to the present, in the middle of October to the company Teksan. Automattic may also need to restore the access to in the annex to the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF).
The loss to Matt Mullenweg
At the end of September, Matt Mullenweg (founder and CEO of Automattic) and began the battle against the WP Engine. The company Teksane charged for the use of the trademark WordPress and WooCommerce without paying honorarin 8%, and without contributing to the project and an open source. Automattic is subsequently blocked public access to the WordPress.org, and thus, that the clients of the WP Engine may not be shkarkonin and update more plug-ins and themes.
At the beginning of October, the WP Engine sued Automattic and is Mullenweg about the abuse of power, attempted murder zhvatjeje, unfair competition, defamation, and libel. While he was awaiting trial, the Teksane sought a preliminary injunction to force the Automattic to restore access to the resources of the WordPress.org. In the meantime, Automattic had also taken control of the attachment of Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) to the WP Engine, and the name changed to Secure the Custom Fields.
The judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin accepted the request of the company, Teksan. Up to the 13th of December, Automattic need to allow for WP Engine to go into the resources of the WordPress.orgto riaktivizojë the credentials of the identity of the employee of the WP Engine to provide the company Teksan the control of the addition ACF to remove the control from the screen of the entrance, which shows that they don't have to be connected to the WP Engine, and remove the list of clients that they have forsaken the service of the company, Teksan from the WP Engine Tracker.
WP Engine thanked the court and to the same extent before. Automattic instead, he stated that the command does not change the status quo, and it would probably win in a court of law.
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