[theme-reviewers] Licensing question

[Chip Bennett]

The only CC license accepted by GNU/FSF to be GPL-compatible is CC0 (Public
Domain).

Thanks,

Chip

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 6:02 AM, Daniel Tara <contact at onedesigns.com> 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> 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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