[theme-reviewers] GPL and limiting usage

[Josh Pollock]

@Daniel Excellent point.
Here is Akismet's pricing plans:
https://akismet.com/plans/

I think CyberChimp's arguments could apply to Akismet. The flaw in the
argument is that nothing on that page is preventing you from removing the
DRM and redistributing it, or using it with out an API key (sure it doesn't
do anything, but they made that clear to you) or choosing not to use a
DRMed piece of software.

TL;DR Don't like a DRM, don't use it.




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
>
>
>
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> 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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