[theme-reviewers] Flash objects in themes

[Edward Caissie]

Which goes back to my recommended documentation. Do we want to have the
"explicit license declaration" somewhere more obvious, such as the theme
description? or inline at the first instance of the "SWF" reference?


Cais.


On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> Is a link to the human-editable file format acceptable for
> repository-hosted Plugins? If so, that should be fine for Themes as well.
>
> But explicit license declaration is a must.
>
> Chip
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>
>> Considering that the theme author likely just used some other
>> open-source package, then I'd say that it's fine as long as they
>> properly link back to the source of the included code, and have links
>> to any licenses that thereby are required. Said licenses must be
>> GPL-compatible, obviously.
>>
>> Personally, I'm not so strict as to require that they include the FLA
>> source, especially in a theme where the end-user likely doesn't care
>> and doesn't need it anyway. However, an HTTP link back to that source,
>> or to the project it originated from, should be there somewhere.
>>
>> -Otto
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