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Why is Wordpress(TM) not open source ?

Like under Apache foundation or something

Go nuts:

Trademark != Copyright

Because it is "perpetually, exclusively, and irrevocably" licensed to Automattic.

Irrevocably? Sure about that?

They are sure the license says that.

It only controls the trademark anyway no different from firefox or anything else with a trademarked name.

Anyone else can do anything else the gpl allows with the software, just under some other name.