1. Sorry, a bit confused:     Headline speaks of “WP Migrate DB
Pro”, but mentioned repository seems to be from the free version
“only”. As I read from the post, the DMCA takedown was “only”
regarding a readme.md, not the whole plugin itself — forking a
free plugin (which is GPL v2, plus from .org) seems fully ok –
or not?      What was the real issue here?      Thanks for any
clarifying!       1. The forked version of the plugin was the
pro version minus the license validator and the Press-Trends
data removed. http://wptavern.com/wordpress-plugin-review-wp-db-
migrate#comment-53663        Forking the plugin is ok, no issue
there, even if it’s a fork of a commercial version. The issue is
violating the copyright of the original author by having content
in the readme file they didn’t have permission to use. So, the
moral of the story here is that forking is ok but follow a few
simple steps to avoid legal trouble, especially copyright and
trademark infringement.       2. …And now that that’s cleaned
up, we’re bac