[theme-reviewers] Licensing issues

[Edward Caissie]

Thanks Otto -

I will address those you have commented on

... they were easy to miss. Even reading it the first time it didn't
register, but my first coffee is still brewing so I using that as an excuse
(*grin*).


Cais.

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> Just a heads up on licensing issues. Saw this post in the forum and
> did some investigating:
> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/read-readme-in-this-theme
>
> First, the requirement to keep links intact is directly against the
> review guidelines. Easy to miss though, I missed it first too.
>
> However, the second one took me a minute to research and be sure.. The
> "GNU Free Documentation License" is NOT compatible with the GPL. That
> one is way too easy to miss:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License#GPL_incompatible_in_both_directions
>
> So this is just a reminder to always check licenses when they're
> stated in files and to make sure they're GPL compatible.
>
> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1157
>
> -Otto
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