[theme-reviewers] Licensing question

[Kirk Wight]

As stated in the guidelines, all themes and included assets must be
released as GPL, and Doug is correct — the attribution requirement makes
that image incompatible with the GPL. The image would need to be removed
for the theme to be approved.

On Monday, October 22, 2012, Daniel Tara wrote:

> I'm not really sure about this, but since the CC-BY does not have the SA
> (share-alike) requirement, technically it's not required to be
> redistributed under the same license but only attributed as the author
> requests. I don't see the use of the share-alike requirement in the other
> license  otherwise. I'm not sure I'm interpreting this correctly, just
> bringing in front something I observed.
>
> Daniel
>
> On Oct 22, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Doug Stewart wrote:
>
> > No, it doesn't mean that. The author would need to specify a new
> > license in order for that to be true. What they said was semantically
> > null -- "If you abide by the license I released it under, there's no
> > problem" essentially. Well, that wasn't the question at hand.
> >
> > By releasing this theme with a CC-BY license, you would be obligating
> > all users of the theme to abide by the licenses it was released under.
> > Since it's GPL[-compatible] or bust for the repo, we can't do it.
> >
> > IANALBIPOOTV.
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 5:26 AM, Vicky Arulsingam
> > <vicky.arulsingam at gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >> In the ticket I reviewed I found that the image being used in the
> header is
> >> licensed under CC-BY-2.0 and is not compatible with GPL.
> >>
> >> The theme author contacted the owner of the image and they've said:
> >> "If you abide by the attribution requirement in CC-BY you can use it for
> >> whatever."
> >>
> >> Does that still mean the image can be licensed under GPL or is it still
> >> CC-By and as such incompatible?
> >> *I feel a headache coming on*
> >>
> >> Ticket URL: http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9666
> >>
> >> -----
> >> Vicky Arulsingam
> >>
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