[theme-reviewers] Regarding the AGPL license

Rohit Tripathi rohitink at live.com
Sun Nov 3 16:21:13 UTC 2013


Thanks. Thats what I thought.

> From: otto at ottodestruct.com
> Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 10:18:31 -0600
> To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Regarding the AGPL license
> 
> It is not actually compatible with the GPLv3, it possesses the quality
> that it can be combined with GPLv3 code into a single distributable
> unit. Code licensed under the GPL cannot be re-licensed under the
> AGPL.
> 
> As themes inherit their GPL nature from WordPress and the default
> themes, they cannot be licensed under the AGPL, since this would be
> adding additional restrictions to the license. Therefore this license
> is not acceptable for themes in the WordPress repository.
> 
> -Otto
> 
> 
> On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Rohit Tripathi <rohitink at live.com> wrote:
> > But It is compatible with GPL v3.
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