Good point about the typing. I worked on a small WP core ticket to disallow bullets (as in bullet lists) in slugs. Turned out there are half a dozen of those in unicode, barely distinguishable from each other.

WP uses a rather short denylist of characters that are not allowed in post slugs. This surprised me because this means that pretty much all unicode emoji are allowed.

Older applications that use non-unicode character encoding may have trouble displaying/using this url, I guess.

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Look, let's agree to disagree? The court case is going to be interesting.

I'm sorry, but that is just simply not true. The trademark protects the name and logo. Not the software, and certainly not its settings.

Every WP install uses different settings. No two wp-config files are the same, and user preferences differ greatly. This would mean everyone is in violation.

I'm convinced that's not true. Hosting on your own infrastructure does not constitute distribution as the GPL is concerned. And wp-config is expressly intended to be modified.

Which plugin are you talking about btw?

I don't think WP Engine is modifying WordPress core files? A simple mu-plugin will suffice to limit revisions and such.

But also, there's a major difference since they're hosting, not distributing.

Anyway, IANAL. But I have lost a lot of faith in Matt.