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>WordPress uses GPL to force users to contribute to open source.

No it doesn't. Users can modify the source and refuse to share it. Sharing only applies if one distributes the code.

This depends on whether the GPL includes (part of) the html-code distributed by the website (seems not, this is the domain of AGPL). GPL is widely known to be insidious.

Using 'force' was perhaps too strong.

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