[theme-reviewers] explicit license statements for binaries

[Chip Bennett]

The main question is: who holds the *copyright* on the binaries in
question, and is the *copyright holder's license* explicit?

if the Theme dev has created all of the binaries (images, etc.) in the
Theme, then the style.css license declaration is sufficient. If, on the
other hand, the Theme is bundling binaries for which the developer *isn't*
the copyright holder, then the original copyright and license need to be
included explicitly.

Chip

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:

> If the media in general is GPL  I don't think that they need to
> be separated from the i.e. license.txt. Everything can be combined into one
> license, either license.txt or link to browser-based license. If the
> licence is GPL-Compatible, small note in readme.txt should be more than
> enough.
>
> Emil
>
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Kirk Wight <kwight at kwight.ca> wrote:
>
>> Speaking of: http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Licensing and
>> http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/2011-October/007141.html
>>
>> How do you all handle licensing for binaries, such as images, fonts, etc?
>> I've been quite a hard-ass with it lately in my reviews because of the
>> above two references, but I'm noticing that it's difficult to even point
>> people to an approved theme in the repo where it's done well. And if it's
>> only a few images/graphics, are people being more lenient?
>>
>> One could argue that if the explicit license isn't there for binaries,
>> then it falls under the general statement in style.css - but that makes me
>> feel funny.
>>
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