[theme-reviewers] jQuery Isotope

[Chip Bennett]

Right, here's the scenario that demonstrates the issue:

Developer A releases a free Theme that bundles the GPL3-licensed jQuery
Isotope. Developer B takes Theme A, and uses it to create a derivative
work, Theme B. Developer B then decides to sell Theme B.

According to the license terms of jQuery Isotope, Developer B must then
purchase a commercial license (i.e. pay a fee) for an ostensibly
GPL3-licensed library that came as part of Theme A.

That's not compatible with GPL.


On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:

> we discussed before terms are no good there, therefore not compatible
>
>
> On Saturday, May 31, 2014, Justin Tadlock <justin at justintadlock.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Isotope is released under two licenses, one is the GPL v3 in open source
>> project. The other is a commercial license.
>> https://github.com/metafizzy/isotope
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>>
>>> On Saturday, May 31, 2014, Gary Barrett <gary at headwaythemes.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> A theme called 'Bearded' is on the repo and is currently a featured theme. It contains jQuery Isotope, which
>>>> is released under a non-GPL compatible license.
>>>>
>>>> The theme - http://wordpress.org/themes/bearded <https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16610>
>>>>
>>>> The script -http://themes.svn.wordpress.org/bearded/1.0.4/assets/js/libs/jquery.isotope.min.js <http://themes.svn.wordpress.org/sampression-lite/1.4.1.1/lib/js/jquery.isotope.min.js>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Gary
>>>>
>>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> theme-reviewers mailing list
>>> theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>>> http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>>>
>>>
>>
> _______________________________________________
> theme-reviewers mailing list
> theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/attachments/20140531/1b2ff221/attachment.html>