<div dir="ltr">No worries; it's never a bad thing to ask. :)<div><br></div><div>Mel pointed out what I also consider as the definitive list of GPL-compatible licenses - the one maintained by GNU:</div><div><a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses/">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses/</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>Note that, in that list, there are two different licenses that have sometimes been referred to as "MIT": Expat and X11, so that can be confusing. But both are GPL-compatible.</div><div>
<br></div><div>If you have any license questions not answered here, please let us know:</div><div><a href="http://make.wordpress.org/themes/guidelines/guidelines-license-theme-name-credit-links-up-sell-themes/">http://make.wordpress.org/themes/guidelines/guidelines-license-theme-name-credit-links-up-sell-themes/</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Chip</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Spencer Piontkowski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spencer@piontkowski.me" target="_blank">spencer@piontkowski.me</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><span>I apologize. I have only been on the mailing list for a few weeks and reviewing themes about as long. This was the first time I've seen a thread dealing with licenses. But, I Googled "site:<a href="http://lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">lists.wordpress.org</a> license" to search the mailing list archive and found 1520 emails on the subject, so I guess it's been hashed many times over the last few years.</span></div>
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<div><span>I noticed that all the threads I read end with something like "themes in WPORG repository must be GPL-compatible." The message is clear, so that's what I'll go by. I just wanted to make sure I'm marching to the beat of the same drum as everyone else when reviewing themes. </span></div>
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<div dir="ltr">We're not going to re-hash this. Been there, done that; don't have time for it again.
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<div>The Guidelines on Licensing state that Themes must be licensed under a GPL-compatible license, including all resources bundled with the Theme. The Guidelines conform to WordPress.org policy.</div></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Spencer Piontkowski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spencer@piontkowski.me" target="_blank">spencer@piontkowski.me</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT:1ex;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid">But that contradicts this page: <a href="http://wordpress.org/about/license/" target="_blank">http://wordpress.org/about/<u></u>license/</a>, which states:<br>
"There is some legal grey area regarding what is considered a derivative work, but we feel strongly that plugins and themes are derivative work and thus inherit the GPL license."
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<div><br><br>------ Original Message ------<br>From: "Otto" <<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com" target="_blank">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>><br>To: "Discussion list for WordPress theme reviewers." <<a href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">theme-reviewers@lists.<u></u>wordpress.org</a>><br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT:1ex;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid">On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 5:00 AM, Konstantin Kovshenin<br><<a href="mailto:kovshenin@gmail.com" target="_blank">kovshenin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT:1ex;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid"> Which is strange though, because a WordPress theme (and a plugin) is<br> derivative work of WordPress and has to inherit the GPL license. So I<br>
guess a theme can't be MIT licensed :)<br></blockquote><br>You are incorrect and yes, a theme can be MIT licensed. Compatible is<br>compatible and it's fine.<br><br>-Otto<br>______________________________<u></u>_________________<br>
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