He's stolen the ACF permalink, reviews, download count, active installations (including the ability to push auto updates), etc.
Sure, the code is free, but that's still a lot of theft.
Sure, the code is free, but that's still a lot of theft.
Way to speed run wiping out trust in your product.
Any Wordpress plugin developer who relies on it for their livelihood should be EXTREMELY worried.
Maybe it's a technicality, but the code is open source and you can do whatever you want it it, provided that you respect the GPL license.
There's a lot to criticise Matt for here, but you can't accuse him of stealing GPL code. Like, that's one of the points of that license.