There continues to be confusion over who or what actually owns WordPress and the associated wordpress.org website. Considering what has happened recently, the ownership is a big security issue. Adding to the confusion was a post published yesterday on the website of Automattic, which is headed by Matt Mullenweg. Matt Mullenweg is claiming to personally own WordPress.org. The post by Neil Peretz, an associate general counsel at Automattic is titled WordPress Trademarks: A Legal Perspective. It makes this claim:
The Foundation also licensed the name WordPress to the non-profit WordPress.org, which runs a website that facilitates access to WordPress-related software. [Read more]