Clearly AdvancedCustomFields should have filed a trademark to prohibit Wordpress from fully stealing it.
GPL code, trademarked branding. If you want to fork then you have to actually fork.
Oh the irony.
GPL code, trademarked branding. If you want to fork then you have to actually fork.
Oh the irony.
They did:
Advanced Custom Fields — https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=98321164&caseSearchType=U...
ACF — https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=98321135&caseSearchType=U...
Without knowing this drama, if I found and clicked an ACF link on a 2 year old Reddit post and ended up at Secure Custom Fields, I’m not sure I’d know it wasn’t by the ACF folks. Just their branding for the v2 or whatever. I think customers have a reasonable expectation that permalinks won’t take them to unrelated products.
Not good.