GPLv3 is compatible with "GPLv2 (or later)". This should be axiomatic. "Should" be, if only GNU/FSF hadn't written a GPLv3 in a way that is explicitly incompatible with GPLv2, which IMHIANALO, was a pretty stupid, short-sighted thing to do. Nevertheless, unless we are told by those above our pay grade that the WPORG repository is only going to accept GPLv2-compatible licenses, we're going to avoid any and all licensing arguments/issues/whatever, and stick with "GPL-compatible", which includes GPLv3.<div>
<br></div><div>Chip</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 8:37 AM, // ravi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ravi-lists@g8o.net">ravi-lists@g8o.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Mar 19, 2012, at 8:21 AM, Edward Caissie wrote:<br>
> From the Theme repository aspect, I do not see any reason ... but from the perspective of the actual licenses themselves, I believe that would be better addressed by whomever sets their guidelines.<br>
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</div>GPLv3 has been discussed many times on wp-hackers. For one thread, see: <a href="http://lists.automattic.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2007-December/016883.html" target="_blank">http://lists.automattic.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2007-December/016883.html</a>. I am not sure there was consensus or an official position on v3, though for a while (and perhaps still?) some Codex guidelines used to require plugins to not use v3 (IIRC) - OTOH, this: <a href="http://wordpress.org/about/gpl/" target="_blank">http://wordpress.org/about/gpl/</a>, clearly says “GPLv2 (or later)”.<br>
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A long time ago, I wrote a blog post defending the GPL (in general, not v3 in particular) and Matt against Dan Jalkut and John Gruber. Matt linked to my post on his blog, but I think he also expressed some doubts about v3. What all this vague information adds up to, I am not sure! :-)<br>
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Also see: <a href="http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2011/01/14/clarification-in-licensing-language/" target="_blank">http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2011/01/14/clarification-in-licensing-language/</a><br>
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—ravi<br>
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> Cais.<br>
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> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Emil Uzelac <<a href="mailto:emil@themeid.com">emil@themeid.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> What I was trying to say is that GPL3 is more compatible with other licenses e.g. Apache2 etc ;)<br>
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> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Emil Uzelac <<a href="mailto:emil@themeid.com">emil@themeid.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> no restriction, GPL3 is also acceptable and more GPL-Compatible as well. My Theme is GPL3 <a href="http://themes.svn.wordpress.org/responsive/1.3.3/license.txt" target="_blank">http://themes.svn.wordpress.org/responsive/1.3.3/license.txt</a><br>
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> Emil<br>
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> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Syahir Hakim <<a href="mailto:khairulsyahir@gmail.com">khairulsyahir@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi everyone,<br>
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> I was just wondering, is there any reason restricting me from changing the licence for my theme from GPLv2 to GPLv3? Thanks.<br>
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