Legal Question

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  linuxtechacademy · Member · Jun 18, 2016 at 1:46 pm

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  My dear wordpress team,

  I don’t know to whom should I talk regarding my project which might be related to word ‘press’, and I need your help please. I am planning to build my own SaaS similar to WordPress.com using php Laravel Framework for development.

  Since I believe in community work, GNU, and Open Source Freedom the way WordPress believe, I chose to build something similar with freedom of choice in mind. I would like one day to have something similar to wordpress so the community can benefit from both sides.

  What I will call Laravelpress.org CMS is on the idea of WordPress concept to take Blogging and simple CMS to next dimension using the same concept and similar ecosystem.

  To be honest and clear with you, I would like to share with you the following discussion at laravel forum https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/general-discussion/building-laravel-cms, hence, please be honest with me and let me know if the word ‘press’ at the end of my domains laravelpress.com or laravelpress.org will create and problems between you and me in the future, if it does or doesn’t please show me some documentation so I can handle it to my lawyer.

  I love wordpress from the bottom my heart and you have no idea how much you have inspired me to take wordpress and blogging concept to the next level. But after deep study, I found out that wordpress development foundation using the current method of developing without a framework similar to Laravel has made wordpress in my belief peaked (That’s my opinion), which have and will create too many code problems and security flaws. And that is based on too many other developers opinions as well.

  Please let me know if what I am doing won’t upset nobody, I just want to have a freedom of choice for me and the rest of the world.

  Imad Daou

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · Jun 18, 2016 at 11:10 pm

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  Hey Imad,

  https://automattic.com/contact/ will most likely be a good place for this inquiry. I’m sure the right contact will be able to respond to the questions you posed in this thread.

  Thanks!

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  linuxtechacademy · Member · Jun 18, 2016 at 11:18 pm

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  Thank you so much for your help! I just did left a message at https://automattic.com/contact/

  Have a wonderful weekend!

  Imad Daou

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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · Jun 19, 2016 at 1:56 am

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  Thanks! You too!