The main question is: who holds the *copyright* on the binaries in question, and is the *copyright holder's license* explicit?<div><br></div><div>if the Theme dev has created all of the binaries (images, etc.) in the Theme, then the style.css license declaration is sufficient. If, on the other hand, the Theme is bundling binaries for which the developer *isn't* the copyright holder, then the original copyright and license need to be included explicitly.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Chip<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Emil Uzelac <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emil@themeid.com">emil@themeid.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><font color="#333333"><font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">If the media in general is GPL I don't think that they need to be separated from the i.e. license.txt. Everything can be combined into one license, either license.txt or link to browser-based license. If the licence is GPL-Compatible, small note in readme.txt should be more than enough.</font></font></font></div>
<div><font color="#333333"><font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#333333"><font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Emil<br></font></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">
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On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Kirk Wight <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kwight@kwight.ca" target="_blank">kwight@kwight.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Speaking of: <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Licensing" target="_blank">http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Licensing</a> and <a href="http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/2011-October/007141.html" target="_blank">http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/2011-October/007141.html</a></div>
<div><br></div>How do you all handle licensing for binaries, such as images, fonts, etc? I've been quite a hard-ass with it lately in my reviews because of the above two references, but I'm noticing that it's difficult to even point people to an approved theme in the repo where it's done well. And if it's only a few images/graphics, are people being more lenient?<div>
<br></div><div>One could argue that if the explicit license isn't there for binaries, then it falls under the general statement in style.css - but that makes me feel funny.</div>
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