[theme-reviewers] Changing license from GPLv2 to GPLv3

[// ravi]

On Mar 19, 2012, at 8:21 AM, Edward Caissie wrote:
> From the Theme repository aspect, I do not see any reason ... but from the perspective of the actual licenses themselves, I believe that would be better addressed by whomever sets their guidelines.
> 

GPLv3 has been discussed many times on wp-hackers. For one thread, see: http://lists.automattic.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2007-December/016883.html. I am not sure there was consensus or an official position on v3, though for a while (and perhaps still?) some Codex guidelines used to require plugins to not use v3 (IIRC) - OTOH, this: http://wordpress.org/about/gpl/, clearly says “GPLv2 (or later)”.

A long time ago, I wrote a blog post defending the GPL (in general, not v3 in particular) and Matt against Dan Jalkut and John Gruber.  Matt linked to my post on his blog, but I think he also expressed some doubts about v3. What all this vague information adds up to, I am not sure! :-)

Also see: http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2011/01/14/clarification-in-licensing-language/

	—ravi


> 
> Cais.
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> 
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
> What I was trying to say is that GPL3 is more compatible with other licenses e.g. Apache2 etc ;)
> 
> 
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
> no restriction, GPL3 is also acceptable and more GPL-Compatible as well. My Theme is GPL3 http://themes.svn.wordpress.org/responsive/1.3.3/license.txt
> 
> Emil
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> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Syahir Hakim <khairulsyahir at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I was just wondering, is there any reason restricting me from changing the licence for my theme from GPLv2 to GPLv3? Thanks.
>  
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> Regards,
> Syahir Hakim
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> http://www.khairul-syahir.com/
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