[theme-reviewers] GPL

[Chandra Maharzan]

Perhaps email with your username?

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Bryan Hadaway <bhadaway at gmail.com> wrote:
> WP officially accepts GPLv3, though not heavily advertised as there is too
> much confusion to the whole thing. I have a couple of my own themes
> submitted (one live in the repo already) that are GPLv3 though not
> explicitly labeled as GPLv3, no need.
>
> Just simply:
>
> License: GNU General Public License
> License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
>
> That way it's good to go indefinitely and never needs to be changed. Nice
> and clean and simple.
>
> Note that I'm not even on the theme review team yet. I commented Aug 5th:
>
> http://make.wordpress.org/themes/about/trac-ticket-request-queue/trac-ticket-request-queue-aug-2012/
>
> And three people that commented after me have already been given a theme.
> Does someone have privileges to check if my comment is in the spam folder
> and approve it so that I can get a theme? Otherwise, who do I need to
> contact to get that worked out?
>
> Thanks, Bryan
>
>
> Bryan Phillip Hadaway
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> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Chandra Maharzan <maharzan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Team,
>>
>> I thought WordPress is not yet GPLv3 although the about page says: The
>> license under which the WordPress software is released is the GPLv2
>> (or later) http://wordpress.org/about/license/
>>
>> But GPLv3 says : Please note that GPLv3 is not compatible with GPLv2
>> by itself.
>> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses
>>
>> I see some themes have GPLv3 license. I have been pointing them to use
>> GPLv2. Can somebody please confirm this ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chandra
>>
>> --
>> cmans
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