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The language is, as described, intentionally vague and people with varying degrees of “affiliation” have been hit by the consequences.

Matt also refuses to provide any elaboration on intent and instead says “you should talk to a lawyer”.

This has the chilling effect he is looking for. No-one is “talking to a lawyer” to create or use a Wordpress.org account. Anyone who has sniffed the same air as WPE knows the intent.




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