As stated in the guidelines, all themes and included assets must be released as GPL, and Doug is correct — the attribution requirement makes that image incompatible with the GPL. The image would need to be removed for the theme to be approved.<span></span><br>
<br>On Monday, October 22, 2012, Daniel Tara wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm not really sure about this, but since the CC-BY does not have the SA (share-alike) requirement, technically it's not required to be redistributed under the same license but only attributed as the author requests. I don't see the use of the share-alike requirement in the other license otherwise. I'm not sure I'm interpreting this correctly, just bringing in front something I observed.<br>
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Daniel<br>
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On Oct 22, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Doug Stewart wrote:<br>
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> No, it doesn't mean that. The author would need to specify a new<br>
> license in order for that to be true. What they said was semantically<br>
> null -- "If you abide by the license I released it under, there's no<br>
> problem" essentially. Well, that wasn't the question at hand.<br>
><br>
> By releasing this theme with a CC-BY license, you would be obligating<br>
> all users of the theme to abide by the licenses it was released under.<br>
> Since it's GPL[-compatible] or bust for the repo, we can't do it.<br>
><br>
> IANALBIPOOTV.<br>
><br>
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 5:26 AM, Vicky Arulsingam<br>
> <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'vicky.arulsingam@gmail.com')">vicky.arulsingam@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> In the ticket I reviewed I found that the image being used in the header is<br>
>> licensed under CC-BY-2.0 and is not compatible with GPL.<br>
>><br>
>> The theme author contacted the owner of the image and they've said:<br>
>> "If you abide by the attribution requirement in CC-BY you can use it for<br>
>> whatever."<br>
>><br>
>> Does that still mean the image can be licensed under GPL or is it still<br>
>> CC-By and as such incompatible?<br>
>> *I feel a headache coming on*<br>
>><br>
>> Ticket URL: <a href="http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9666" target="_blank">http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9666</a><br>
>><br>
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>> Vicky Arulsingam<br>
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