<div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>Yes, MIT is compatible with GPL. I'm sorry, somehow I missed that part. <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#Expat">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#Expat</a></div>
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1. Re: License Issue (Sudeep Acharya)<br>
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Cc: <br>Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 13:43:21 +0545<br>Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] License Issue<br>and how about creative commons. and Unknown License.<br>
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On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Emil Uzelac <<a href="mailto:emil@uzelac.me">emil@uzelac.me</a>> wrote:<br>
> MIT is GPL-Compatible<br>
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> On Nov 14, 2013 1:54 AM, "Sudeep Acharya" <<a href="mailto:sudeep611@gmail.com">sudeep611@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> I am new to theme review and currently on theme I am reviewing is<br>
>> using fonts by mentioning "Persian Fonts - Unknown License". Can he do<br>
>> this.<br>
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>> and also "MIT" license is compatible or not.<br>
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>> and how about creativecommons license. Is it compatible?<br>
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Cc: <br>Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 13:48:06 +0530<br>Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] License Issue (Emil Uzelac)<br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div>Welcome to the club <img src="cid:gtalk.328@goomoji.gmail" goomoji="gtalk.328" style="margin:0px 0.2ex;vertical-align:middle">. All themes are required to be 100% GPL licensed or GPL compatible. This license must includes all the files .php, .html, fonts, .css whatever file is used for the theme. Even those commercial themes also need to be licensed under GPL or GPL compatible. MIT and all other license must not be approved. You can check all this here <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/themes/guidelines/guidelines-license-theme-name-credit-links-up-sell-themes/" target="_blank">http://make.wordpress.org/themes/guidelines/guidelines-license-theme-name-credit-links-up-sell-themes/</a>.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Keep it up_____<br></div><div><br></div><div>Warm regards,</div><div>Swagata Das</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I am new to theme review and currently on theme I am reviewing is<br>
using fonts by mentioning "Persian Fonts - Unknown License". Can he do<br>
this.<br>
<br>
and also "MIT" license is compatible or not.<br>
<br>
and how about creativecommons license. Is it compatible?<br>
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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 01:57:17 -0600<br>
From: Emil Uzelac <<a href="mailto:emil@uzelac.me" target="_blank">emil@uzelac.me</a>><br>
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MIT is GPL-Compatible<br>
On Nov 14, 2013 1:54 AM, "Sudeep Acharya" <<a href="mailto:sudeep611@gmail.com" target="_blank">sudeep611@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I am new to theme review and currently on theme I am reviewing is<br>
> using fonts by mentioning "Persian Fonts - Unknown License". Can he do<br>
> this.<br>
><br>
> and also "MIT" license is compatible or not.<br>
><br>
> and how about creativecommons license. Is it compatible?<br>
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Cc: <br>Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 02:23:22 -0600<br>Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] License Issue<br>Which Creative Commons license? I believe CC0 is the only one that's compatible. An unknown license won't work here.<br>
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On 11/14/2013 1:58 AM, Sudeep Acharya wrote:<br>
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and how about creative commons. and Unknown License.<br>
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On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Emil Uzelac <<a href="mailto:emil@uzelac.me" target="_blank">emil@uzelac.me</a>> wrote:<br>
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MIT is GPL-Compatible<br>
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On Nov 14, 2013 1:54 AM, "Sudeep Acharya" <<a href="mailto:sudeep611@gmail.com" target="_blank">sudeep611@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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I am new to theme review and currently on theme I am reviewing is<br>
using fonts by mentioning "Persian Fonts - Unknown License". Can he do<br>
this.<br>
<br>
and also "MIT" license is compatible or not.<br>
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and how about creativecommons license. Is it compatible?<br>
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Cc: <br>Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 02:31:51 -0600<br>Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] License Issue (Emil Uzelac)<br><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Swagata Das <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swagatoatwork@gmail.com" target="_blank">swagatoatwork@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div>Welcome to the club <img src="cid:gtalk.328@goomoji.gmail" goomoji="gtalk.328" style="margin:0px 0.2ex;vertical-align:middle">. All themes are required to be 100% GPL licensed or GPL compatible. This license must includes all the files .php, .html, fonts, .css whatever file is used for the theme. Even those commercial themes also need to be licensed under GPL or GPL compatible. MIT and all other license must not be approved. You can check all this here <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/themes/guidelines/guidelines-license-theme-name-credit-links-up-sell-themes/" target="_blank">http://make.wordpress.org/themes/guidelines/guidelines-license-theme-name-credit-links-up-sell-themes/</a>.</div>
</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The "MIT license" is compatible with the GPL and perfectly acceptable for themes in the directory.</div><div><br></div><div>Licenses must be evaluated on a case by case basis. If you're not sure, post the relevant information here, and we'll look it up for you.</div>
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