[theme-reviewers] explicit license statements for binaries

[Kirk Wight]

How do we feel about adding the following to the Guidelines, as another
bullet under Licensing :

"If the theme includes any binary files (such as images, fonts, or icons),
themes are *required* to explicitly declare all GPL-compatible licenses for
these files (this can be done in readme.txt)."



On 9 February 2012 19:44, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> 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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