<div dir="ltr">Limiting to "copying, modifying, and distributing" is a bit of a straw man. GPL derives from Copyright law, and under Copyright law, only the copyright holder has the right to *use* a protected work. Thus, if the GPL does not permit use, then no use right is extended. It is implicit in the license that use is both permitted and unrestricted.<div>
<br></div><div>The clause regarding limiting the scope to "copying, modifying, and distributing" regards the *terms* under which those activities may be conducted. Restricting use is just as much of an incompatibility with GPL as would be restricting copying, modifying, or distributing.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Justin Tadlock <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:justin@justintadlock.com" target="_blank">justin@justintadlock.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Sorry, I haven't seen the evidence of this before. That's all new
to me. There's been a lot of posts. It should be easy to
understand that maybe I've missed something through all of the
discussion. Can you (or anyone) please share where, in their terms
or wherever, this information is coming from (the information where
you're not allowed to copy, modify, or distribute the code)?<br>
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I don't need anything more than that. I don't even care that much
about this discussion. I'm just interested in seeing the answer to
my question.<br>
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<div>On 10/9/2013 6:25 PM, Bryan Hadaway
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<div><b>@Justin</b><br>
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"If they limit how you can use the code that has been
distributed to you, that'd be a problem."<br>
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That's what they're doing. What is a theme, a theme is code,
they're saying you can only use this code x amount of times
for x amount of dollars.<br>
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That's from the horses mouth, what more do you need? I'm happy
you're trying to understand, but this has all been covered over
and over.<br>
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