Best of Legal — October 2024

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   The WordPress ecosystem has lost its mind…

   The post discusses escalating drama in the WordPress ecosystem involving Matt Mullenweg, Automattic, and WP Engine. Triggered by Automattic's demand for royalties from WP Engine, the conflict has led to legal battles, public controversies, and significant community backlash. The detailed timeline reveals conflicts over trademark usage, financial contributions to the WordPress community, and accusations of improper business practices, significantly impacting WordPress users and developers.

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   Show the Licenses in your Flutter app

   It's important for your Flutter app to display licenses for the packages it uses, often to meet legal requirements. You can achieve this by calling the API directly or using the showLicensePage widget. This will include licenses for all dependencies, including transitive ones. For a custom approach, you can retrieve raw licenses from the LicenseRegistry class.

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   Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up

   Cloudflare secured a significant victory against Sable Networks, a so-called 'patent troll,' resulting in Sable paying $225K, granting Cloudflare a royalty-free license to its patent portfolio, and abandoning its patents. This outcome followed a jury ruling that Cloudflare did not infringe Sable's 'micro-flow label switching' patent, which was deemed invalid due to prior art. The decision marks a robust stance against meritless patent cases in the tech industry.

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