[theme-reviewers] GPL and limiting usage

[Daniel]

I know that this is more of a plugin question, but would Akismet fall
under the same matter as far as GPL is concern? Or am I missing
something?
Regards,
Daniel Fenn






On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Josh Pollock <jpollock412 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Seriously! Unless someone can answer Justin's question what's the debate
> about? As far as I can tell I can download Pagelines, remove the DRM and
> redistribute it without violating their terms. Sounds GNUy to me.
>
> (and yes I know that when it comes to DRMs there are issues related to the
> DMCA, but for that point to be relevant we would have to require GPL3, not
> GPL2, which we don't.)
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Justin Tadlock <justin at justintadlock.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Sorry, I haven't seen the evidence of this before.  That's all new to me.
>> There's been a lot of posts.  It should be easy to understand that maybe
>> I've missed something through all of the discussion.  Can you (or anyone)
>> please share where, in their terms or wherever, this information is coming
>> from (the information where you're not allowed to copy, modify, or
>> distribute the code)?
>>
>> I don't need anything more than that.  I don't even care that much about
>> this discussion.  I'm just interested in seeing the answer to my question.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> On 10/9/2013 6:25 PM, Bryan Hadaway wrote:
>>
>> @Justin
>>
>> "If they limit how you can use the code that has been distributed to you,
>> that'd be a problem."
>>
>> That's what they're doing. What is a theme, a theme is code, they're
>> saying you can only use this code x amount of times for x amount of dollars.
>>
>> That's from the horses mouth, what more do you need? I'm happy you're
>> trying to understand, but this has all been covered over and over.
>>
>>
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