[theme-reviewers] Some review queries

[Chip Bennett]

You searched this link?
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses/

I get two hits for "MIT License": X11 and Expat.


On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 9:47 AM, esmi at quirm dot net <esmi at quirm.net>wrote:

> on 21/05/2013 13:54 Chip Bennett said the following:
>
>  3) MIT is GPL-compatible. Please refer to the link to accepted
>> GPL-compatible licenses athttp://codex.wordpress.org/**
>> Theme_Review#Licensing<http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Licensing>
>>
>
> I checked that section and even ran a page search on case-insensitve "mit"
> but couldn't finds a reference to MIT being GPL-compatible.
>
> The only thing I could recall is that BEFORE the current theme review
> process, I had a theme rejected because it contained an MIT-licensed js
> script.
>
> I dimly recalled seeing something about MIT being GPL compatible but when
> I tried to check in <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/**license-list.html<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html>>
> it kept timing out. :-(
>
> I'll reject the theme on the basis of the ThemeForest theme on the
> author's site and the lack of any explicit license for the bundled font.
> Then onto the next theme. :-)
>
>
> Mel
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