In an interview that Matt Mullenweg did over the weekend, which was filled with falsehoods. One false statement he said stood out because of recently uncovered information. That uncovered information is the license that Automattic has for usage of the WordPress Trademark. Matt Mullenweg hasn’t it put out there for scrutiny and it turns out to be more extensive than he had made it sound when he was promoting having moved the license to the WordPress Foundation.

The license agreement states that Automattic has “an exclusive, fully-paid, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, sublicensable right and license.”

In the interview, he stated that “I or Automattic could lose the license if the WordPress Foundation determines we are not good stewards of the WordPress trademark.” That doesn’t comport at all with the perpetual and irrevocable nature of the license mentioned in the license agreement.

It appears that Matt Mullenweg is lying about the license agreement with Automattic. With that, at least the agreement is actually public, if not made easily available by the WordPress Foundation. The agreement apparently with Matt Mullenweg isn’t available. One has to wonder if that is because it would show that WordPress doesn’t actually have a license, only Matt Mullenweg.