[theme-reviewers] GPL and limiting usage

[Srikanth Koneru]

Chip, anywhere i can read up on "Restricting use is just as much of an
incompatibility with GPL as would be restricting copying, modifying, or
distributing." ?


On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 5:58 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> FYI, Akismet was asked and answered in one of the previous 94 emails in
> this thread. But to reiterate:
>
> No.
>
> Akismet provides a server, that performs a service. That service is
> evaluation of content to determine if that content is spam. The algorithms
> used to evaluate that content reside on Akismet's servers. The API allows
> the client (Plugin) to interact with the server, to send content to be
> evaluated, and then returns the evaluation.
>
> There is absolutely no issue with this whatsoever.
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Daniel <danielx386 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> _______________________________________________
>> >> theme-reviewers mailing list
>> >> theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>> >> http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> _______________________________________________
>> >> theme-reviewers mailing list
>> >> theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>> >> http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > theme-reviewers mailing list
>> > theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>> > http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>> >
>> _______________________________________________
>> theme-reviewers mailing list
>> theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>> http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> theme-reviewers mailing list
> theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/attachments/20131010/9e11e00c/attachment-0001.html>