Title: Commercial wordpress!?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Commercial wordpress!?

 *  [Arash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/john25/)
 * (@john25)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/commercial-wordpress/)
 * [http://www.flipcorp.com/chameleon/](http://www.flipcorp.com/chameleon/) is a
   commercial cms that is based on wordpress. If you look at the demo it’s pretty
   much wordpress, with added plugins and a different admin theme.
 * What I find strange is the following:
 * “Chameleon Software Ltd. was founded in 2006 and is a registered limited liability
   company with its office in the British Virgin Islands and fully owned by Flip
   Holding Ltd. The company has acquired the intellectual properties of the market
   leading content management and e-Commerce platform “Chameleon” and licenses it
   to online production agencies such as Flip Media FZ-LLC and others.”
 * How can a company buy the intellectual properties of something that is pretty
   much wordpress?
 * How is this possible?
 * p.s Forgive me if I ask a stupid question, I just don’t understand how its possible
   for a company to own the intellectual properties of somthing that hare a opensource
   core.

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 *  Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/)
 * (@matt)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/commercial-wordpress/#post-570576)
 * There was a discussion about this on the hackers list a while back:
 * [http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2006-June/006612.html](http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2006-June/006612.html)
 *  Thread Starter [Arash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/john25/)
 * (@john25)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/commercial-wordpress/#post-570583)
 * Thanks matt.
 * WoW! These guys are charging 6.800 USD for something that is pretty much wordpress!

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