I had a discussion with Chip about this topic some time ago, and I thought that together we reached a very logical, and sound conclusion.<br><br>I agree 100% that an author's own landing site, or other content on that site (domain name), needs to be to a site that itself contains only 100% GPL. (But recall past discussions here that links to an author page on GitHub or others are acceptable - and I don't think all GitHub projects have to be GPL compatible - just open source, whatever that might mean...)<br>
<br>But it should be okay to include links on that site to other sites with different domain names (and this was the important threshold) that might include non-GPL stuff.<br><br>As Otto pointed out, WordPress.org should encourage authors to contribute good themes to the repository. But I am sure there are plenty of authors who would like to contribute that also may have non-GPL WP themes they've written or have contributed to. I don't think it is unreasonable to allow links from the landing pages that go to the author's other works. As noted, having theme reviewers follow all links is way above and beyond the call of duty. And I believe it is still in the spirit of GPL to sell products that are partly GPL and partly non-GPL - there are tons of Linux based products that work exactly that way. So a link to another site doesn't seem unreasonable.<br>
<br>So besides being very difficult to enforce, I think it is also fair to allow authors to have links to any external site that they want. As Chip said, this isn't the Code of Federal Regulations!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
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