We are pleased to announce that Automattic has made a remarkable and generous donation by transferring ownership of the WordPress trademark to the WordPress Foundation. We’re honored to accept this donation, and to preserve and protect the trademark in the years ahead as a keystone part of the Foundation’s mission to ensure that WordPress is around and thrives for generations to come.
It is highly unusual (to say the least) for a company to give away a trademark worth millions, and this move by Automattic is extremely generous and community-minded.
Matt has posted about the decision to donate the trademark on his blog, and our official trademark policy is posted here on this site.
Thank you, Automattic! The Foundation will do its best to safeguard this legacy.
Great initiative by Matt to keep WordPress truly open source to the world.
This is really awesome news. WordPress has become such a household name, even people with very less knowledge about web want a WordPress website. I really look forward to the years to come.
Congratulations
And, hats off to Automattic
En el Mundo hay personas generosas. Estamos segúros de que La Fundación hará bién su trabajo.
Excellent news! Keep up the good work
Amazing, congratulations!!! hope this will lead to a much better wordpress
Great news !!
Thats the beauty of the Open Source and people that are involved in it… they are always eager to give something back to the people that embraced their work !
Keep the legacy for the common good.