[theme-reviewers] GPL

[Bryan Hadaway]

This is a big, confusing debate that gets rehashed over and over. There
really is no definitely clear answer and probably never will be. Since WP
allows both GPLv2 and 3 it's up to every individual to read both and decide
for themselves, no one can tell you what to use or what's best - they can
only decide for themselves. It can all be interpreted subjectively in many
different ways.

I had a GPL question I personally never saw discussed before if anyone
knows the answer. Is declaring Public Domain or No License (meaning there
are no restrictions whatsoever) compatible with GPL? There isn't anything
in the world friendlier than Public Domain so I can't see what the problem
would be. So what if you submitted a theme or plugin simply as:

License: Public Domain
License URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/

or

License: Unlicensed
License URI: http://unlicense.org/

If that was GPL and WP compatible we could just use one of those and never
have to worry about it again, even when GPLv4 inevitably comes around.


Bryan Phillip Hadaway


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On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Chandra Maharzan <maharzan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, I can actually control a section of code and not allow people to
> modify it with GPLv3. To my understanding, this is against what WP
> does right now. I don't know where that can lead to, perhaps a
> discussion  we had when WP changed over to GPL ?
>
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 7:30 AM, // ravi <ravi-lists at g8o.net> wrote:
> > On Aug 8, 2012, at 9:21 PM, Chandra Maharzan <maharzan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Read what Otto wrote. :)
> >>
> >
> > I did! What Otto wrote was about why *he* is unwilling to accept the
> terms of GPLv3, based on the Tivo clause and other issues he finds
> disagreeable. But that does not imply that GPLv3 does not permit anyone to
> reuse or change the code, a claim that’s hard to swallow given that is the
> very goal of the GPLvAnything, yes?
> >
> >         —ravi
> >
> >
> >> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 7:02 AM, // ravi <ravi-lists at g8o.net> wrote:
> >>> On Aug 8, 2012, at 9:15 PM, Chandra Maharzan <maharzan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>> Thanks for this discussion. I had the same understanding. While
> >>>> WordPress is set so that anyone can reuse or change the code but GPLv3
> >>>> doesn't allow this.
> >>>
> >>> How so?
> >>>
> >>>        —ravi
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> P.S: *I* didn’t start the GPLv3 thread. :-)
> >>>
> >
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